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title: There was no man that could be matched with him for height, and bign… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: There was no man that could be matched with him for height, and bigness of limb, and strength of body. Who acts: man. A sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How Fierabras Defied King Charles, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every c
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Fierabras Defied King Charles, sentence 2

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There was no man that could be matched with him for height, and bigness of limb, and strength of body.

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**Who acts:** man · **What happens:** be, match · **To what, where:** man

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This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How Fierabras Defied King Charles. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg75339:16:2
# text = There was no man that could be matched with him for height, and bigness of limb, and strength of body.
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	2	expl	_	_
2	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	4	det	_	_
4	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
5	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	8	obj	_	_
6	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
7	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	aux:pass	_	_
8	matched	match	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	acl:relcl	_	_
9	with	with	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	obl	_	_
11	for	for	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	height	height	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	bigness	bigness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	appos	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	limb	limb	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	strength	strength	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	parataxis	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | past | no man |  |  | there |  | strength of body *parataxis* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **match** | could · passive |  | no man |  |  |  | with man; for height | vn amalgamate-22.2-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: that=Patient with he=Co-Patient |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Text:** «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, Project Gutenberg book 75339 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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