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description: And indeed they were all in great peril of drowning, and doubtless had so perished, but that there were in the dungeon two pillars, fifteen feet or thereabouts in height, upon which they climbed, lifting up Oliver also, for of his own strength he could not have done it. Who acts: wounds, water. A se
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Oliver and His Comrades Fared, sentence 38

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And indeed they were all in great peril of drowning, and doubtless had so perished, but that there were in the dungeon two pillars, fifteen feet or thereabouts in height, upon which they climbed, lifting up Oliver also, for of his own strength he could not have done it.

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**Who acts:** wounds, water · **What happens:** be, perish, climb, lift up, not do · **To what, where:** great peril, doubtless, height, two pillars, Oliver

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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 (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:pg75339:19:38
# text = And indeed they were all in great peril of drowning, and doubtless had so perished, but that there were in the dungeon two pillars, fifteen feet or thereabouts in height, upon which they climbed, lifting up Oliver also, for of his own strength he could not have done it.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
2	indeed	indeed	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
3	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
4	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
5	all	all	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	peril	peril	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	drowning	drowning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
13	doubtless	doubtless	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj:pass	_	_
14	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
15	so	so	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	perished	perish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
18	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
19	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
20	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	21	expl	_	_
21	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	cop	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	dungeon	dungeon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
25	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	26	nummod	_	_
26	pillars	pillar	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
28	fifteen	fifteen	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	29	nummod	_	_
29	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	conj	_	_
30	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
31	thereabouts	thereabout	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	conj	_	_
32	in	in	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	height	height	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
35	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	38	obl	_	_
37	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	38	nsubj	_	_
38	climbed	climb	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
40	lifting	lift	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	38	advcl	_	_
41	up	up	ADP	RP	_	40	compound:prt	_	_
42	Oliver	Oliver	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	40	obj	_	_
43	also	also	ADV	RB	_	40	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	49	punct	_	_
45	for	for	ADP	IN	_	49	case	_	_
46	of	of	ADP	IN	_	45	fixed	_	_
47	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	49	nmod:poss	_	_
48	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	49	amod	_	_
49	strength	strength	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	obl	_	_
50	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	54	nsubj	_	_
51	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	54	aux	_	_
52	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	54	advmod	_	_
53	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	54	aux	_	_
54	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	49	acl:relcl	_	_
55	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	54	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
56	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | wounds *= wound* |  |  | great peril |  | of drowning; all, indeed *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **perish** | past · perfect · passive |  | doubtless |  | height |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **is a** | past |  | two pillars and fifteen feet or thereabouts |  |  |  | fifteen feet *conj*; thereabouts *conj* | tree rules |
| 4 | **climb** | past | wounds *= wound* |  |  |  |  | for water's own strength; which *obl* | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon which=Trajectory |
| 5 | **lift up** | gerund | wounds *= wound* *not said here* | Oliver |  |  |  |  | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent oliver=Theme |
| 6 | **not** **do** | could · perfect | water | doubtless |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality |

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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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