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title: Now there was never man on earth who has given me such trouble of mi… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: Now there was never man on earth who has given me such trouble of mind as have you. Who acts: man, earth. A sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How Oliver Fought With Fierabras, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Oliver Fought With Fierabras, sentence 57

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Now there was never man on earth who has given me such trouble of mind as have you.

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**Who acts:** man, earth · **What happens:** be, give, have, trouble · **To what, where:** such trouble, me, mind as

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This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How Oliver Fought With Fierabras. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, earth), 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:pg75339:17:57
# text = Now there was never man on earth who has given me such trouble of mind as have you.
1	Now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	3	expl	_	_
3	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	advcl	_	_
4	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
5	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
6	on	on	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	earth	earth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
8	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	10	nsubj	_	_
9	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	given	give	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	7	acl:relcl	_	_
11	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	10	iobj	_	_
12	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	trouble	trouble	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	mind	mind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	as	a	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nmod	_	_
17	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
18	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | past | man on earth *not said here* |  |  | there | now |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **give** | present · perfect | earth | such trouble of mind as | me |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient trouble=Theme |
| 3 | **have** | present | man on earth |  |  |  |  | you *nsubj* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **trouble** |  |  | mind as |  |  |  |  | nom trouble «cognition transitive»: of=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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