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title: Then the Saracens, of whom there was a great host, assailed the Fren… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: Then the Saracens, of whom there was a great host, assailed the Frenchmen, but could not stand against them. Who acts: Saracens. 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 tree and the pragmati
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the Doings of the French Knights, sentence 98

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Then the Saracens, of whom there was a great host, assailed the Frenchmen, but could not stand against them.

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**Who acts:** Saracens · **What happens:** assail, not stand · **To what, where:** Frenchmen

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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 (Saracens), 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:pg75339:22:98
# text = Then the Saracens, of whom there was a great host, assailed the Frenchmen, but could not stand against them.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	13	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	Saracens	Saracen	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	3	acl:relcl	_	_
7	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	8	expl	_	_
8	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	acl:relcl	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	host	host	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	assailed	assail	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	Frenchmen	Frenchman	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
17	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
18	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
19	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	20	advmod	_	_
20	stand	stand	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	conj	_	_
21	against	against	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **assail** | past | the Saracens | the Frenchmen |  |  | then |  | vn attack-60.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent frenchman=Patient |
| 2 | **not** **stand** | could | the Saracens *not said here* |  |  |  |  | against Frenchmen *= frenchman* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent against they=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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