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title: Nor were the knights beaten back, even though King Clarion, who was… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: Nor were the knights beaten back, even though King Clarion, who was the Admiral's neighbour, came to his help with 15,000 men. Who acts: Nor, King. A sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, Of the Doings of the French Knights, with its dependency tr
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the Doings of the French Knights, sentence 100

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Nor were the knights beaten back, even though King Clarion, who was the Admiral's neighbour, came to his help with 15,000 men.

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**Who acts:** Nor, King · **What happens:** be, beat back, come, help · **To what, where:** knights, neighbour, help

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This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, Of the Doings of the French Knights. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Nor, King), 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:pg75339:22:100
# text = Nor were the knights beaten back, even though King Clarion, who was the Admiral's neighbour, came to his help with 15,000 men.
1	Nor	Nor	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	knights	knight	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
5	beaten	beat	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	acl	_	_
6	back	back	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
8	even	even	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
9	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
10	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
11	Clarion	Clarion	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
13	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	18	nsubj	_	_
14	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	Admiral	Admiral	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	's	's	PART	POS	_	16	case	_	_
18	neighbour	neighbour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
20	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
21	to	to	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	help	help	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
24	with	with	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	15,000	15000	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	26	nummod	_	_
26	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | Nor | the knights |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **beat back** | participle |  | the knights *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **is a** | past | King | the Admiral's neighbour |  |  |  | the Admiral *nmod:poss* | tree rules |
| 4 | **come** | past | King |  |  | King's help |  | with 15,000 men | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to help=Initial\_Location |
| 5 | **help** |  | King |  |  |  |  |  | nom help «act 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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