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title: Never did better weapon hang by my side or by the side of any man li… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: Never did better weapon hang by my side or by the side of any man living upon earth." Who acts: better weapon, man. 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 clau
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Oliver Fought With Fierabras, sentence 70

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Never did better weapon hang by my side or by the side of any man living upon earth."

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**Who acts:** better weapon, man · **What happens:** not hang, live · **To what, where:** earth

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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 (better weapon, 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:pg75339:17:70
# text = Never did better weapon hang by my side or by the side of any man living upon earth."
1	Never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	5	advmod	_	_
2	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
3	better	good	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	4	amod	_	_
4	weapon	weapon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	hang	hang	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	by	by	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
9	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
10	by	by	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	15	det	_	_
15	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
16	living	live	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	15	acl	_	_
17	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	earth	earth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **hang** | past · do-support | better weapon |  |  |  |  | by my side or the side of any man | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by side=Location |
| 2 | **live** | gerund | any man *not said here* |  |  | earth |  |  | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon earth=Location |

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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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