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title: There were precious herbs also which availed to cure all manner of s… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: There were precious herbs also which availed to cure all manner of sickness and maladies, save only the malady of death. Who acts: precious herbs. 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 
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Oliver and His Comrades Fared, sentence 85

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There were precious herbs also which availed to cure all manner of sickness and maladies, save only the malady of death.

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**Who acts:** precious herbs · **What happens:** be, avail, cure, save · **To what, where:** manner, malady

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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 (precious herbs), 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:pg75339:19:85
# text = There were precious herbs also which availed to cure all manner of sickness and maladies, save only the malady of death.
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	2	expl	_	_
2	were	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	precious	precious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	herbs	herb	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
5	also	also	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
6	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	7	nsubj	_	_
7	availed	avail	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	ccomp	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	cure	cure	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	xcomp	_	_
10	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	11	det	_	_
11	manner	manner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	sickness	sickness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	maladies	malady	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	save	save	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	conj	_	_
18	only	only	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	malady	malady	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	death	death	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 |  |  |  | there |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **avail** | past | precious herbs |  |  |  |  | which *nsubj* | tree rules |
| 3 | **cure** | to-infinitive | precious herbs *not said here* | all manner of sickness and maladies |  |  |  |  | vn free-10.6.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Causer manner=Source |
| 4 | **save** | infinitive | precious herbs *not said here* | the malady of death |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent malady=Theme |

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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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