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description: The Frenchmen are but few, and when they shall be aware of this great multitude they will be overcome with fear." Who acts: Frenchmen, great multitude. A sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, Of Guy of Burgundy, with its dependency tree and the pr
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of Guy of Burgundy, sentence 78

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The Frenchmen are but few, and when they shall be aware of this great multitude they will be overcome with fear."

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**Who acts:** Frenchmen, great multitude · **What happens:** be, overcome · **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 Guy of Burgundy. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Frenchmen, great multitude), 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:pg75339:23:78
# text = The Frenchmen are but few, and when they shall be aware of this great multitude they will be overcome with fear."
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Frenchmen	Frenchman	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
8	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	12	mark	_	_
9	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
10	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
11	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	cop	_	_
12	aware	aware	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	conj	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	16	det	_	_
15	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	multitude	multitude	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
17	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj:pass	_	_
18	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
19	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	aux:pass	_	_
20	overcome	overcome	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	acl:relcl	_	_
21	with	with	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	fear	fear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | the Frenchmen |  |  |  |  | few *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | shall | Frenchmen *= frenchman* |  |  |  |  | of this great multitude; aware *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **overcome** | future · passive | this great multitude *not said here* | Frenchmen *= frenchman* |  |  |  | with fear | vn exceed-90 «NP V NP»: subject=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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