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title: He has not driven all evil men out of his country, for on our way we… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: He has not driven all evil men out of his country, for on our way we met some fifteen villains who would have taken from us our horses and our lives. Who acts: Duke, we, fifteen villains. A sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, Of the Bridge of Ma
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the Bridge of Mantryble, sentence 79

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He has not driven all evil men out of his country, for on our way we met some fifteen villains who would have taken from us our horses and our lives.

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**Who acts:** Duke, we, fifteen villains · **What happens:** not drive, meet, take · **To what, where:** evil men, country, fifteen villains

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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 (Duke, we, fifteen villains), 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:pg75339:20:79
# text = He has not driven all evil men out of his country, for on our way we met some fifteen villains who would have taken from us our horses and our lives.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	driven	drive	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	7	det	_	_
6	evil	evil	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
8	out	out	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
13	for	for	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	on	on	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
17	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	met	meet	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
19	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	21	det	_	_
20	fifteen	fifteen	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	21	nummod	_	_
21	villains	villain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obj	_	_
22	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	25	nsubj	_	_
23	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
24	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	aux	_	_
25	taken	take	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	21	acl:relcl	_	_
26	from	from	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	25	obl	_	_
28	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
29	horses	horse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	appos	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
31	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	32	nmod:poss	_	_
32	lives	life	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **drive** | present · perfect | Duke | all evil men |  | Duke's country |  |  | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent man=Theme out country=Trajectory |
| 2 | **meet** | past | we | some fifteen villains |  |  |  | for our way | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent villain=Co-Agent |
| 3 | **take** | would · perfect | some fifteen villains |  |  |  |  | from us | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent from we=Initial\_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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