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title: As for Oliver the salt water made his wounds, which were many and gr… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: As for Oliver the salt water made his wounds, which were many and grievous, to smart beyond all bearing. Who acts: salt water, wounds, water. A sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How Oliver and His Comrades Fared, with its dependency tree and t
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Oliver and His Comrades Fared, sentence 36

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As for Oliver the salt water made his wounds, which were many and grievous, to smart beyond all bearing.

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**Who acts:** salt water, wounds, water · **What happens:** make, be, wound · **To what, where:** wounds

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This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How Oliver and His Comrades Fared. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (salt water, wounds, water), 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:pg75339:19:36
# text = As for Oliver the salt water made his wounds, which were many and grievous, to smart beyond all bearing.
1	As	as	ADP	IN	ExtPos=ADP	3	case	_	_
2	for	for	ADP	IN	_	1	fixed	_	_
3	Oliver	Oliver	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	salt	salt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	wounds	wound	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	13	nsubj	_	_
12	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
13	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	appos	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	grievous	grievous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	smart	smart	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	conj	_	_
19	beyond	beyond	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	21	det	_	_
21	bearing	bearing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | past | the salt water | water's wounds |  |  |  | as Oliver | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset wound=Product |
| 2 | **is** | past | water's wounds |  |  |  |  | many *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **be** |  | water's wounds *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **wound** |  | water |  |  |  |  |  | nom wound «state transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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