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title: There are in it thirty arches, and on it are great towers, and the w… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: There are in it thirty arches, and on it are great towers, and the walls are so wide that ten knights can ride abreast upon them. Who acts: thirty arches, bridge, walls, ten knights. A sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, Of the Bridge of Mantryb
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the Bridge of Mantryble, sentence 64

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There are in it thirty arches, and on it are great towers, and the walls are so wide that ten knights can ride abreast upon them.

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**Who acts:** thirty arches, bridge, walls, ten knights · **What happens:** be, ride · **To what, where:** bridge, great towers

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This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, Of the Bridge of Mantryble. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (thirty arches, bridge, walls, ten knights), 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:pg75339:20:64
# text = There are in it thirty arches, and on it are great towers, and the walls are so wide that ten knights can ride abreast upon them.
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	2	expl	_	_
2	are	be	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obl	_	_
5	thirty	thirty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	_
6	arches	arch	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
9	on	on	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
10	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
11	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
12	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	towers	tower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	walls	wall	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nsubj	_	_
18	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
19	so	so	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	wide	wide	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	parataxis	_	_
21	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
22	ten	ten	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	23	nummod	_	_
23	knights	knight	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nsubj	_	_
24	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
25	ride	ride	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	advcl	_	_
26	abreast	abreast	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
27	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **does** | present | thirty arches |  |  | bridge; there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in it=Location |
| 2 | **is** | present | bridge |  |  | great towers |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** | present | the walls |  |  |  |  | wide *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **ride** | can | ten knights |  |  |  |  | upon walls *= wall*; abreast *property* | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=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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