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title: But of more avail than all these multitudes was a certain magician,… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: But of more avail than all these multitudes was a certain magician, by name Mahon. 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 pragmatics of every clause.
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of Guy of Burgundy, sentence 86

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But of more avail than all these multitudes was a certain magician, by name Mahon.

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**What happens:** be · **To what, where:** certain magician

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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: 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:pg75339:23:86
# text = But of more avail than all these multitudes was a certain magician, by name Mahon.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	4	amod	_	_
4	avail	avail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
5	than	than	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	8	det:predet	_	_
7	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	8	det	_	_
8	multitudes	multitude	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod	_	_
9	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	certain	certain	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	magician	magician	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	by	by	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	_
16	Mahon	Mahon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past |  | a certain magician and name |  |  |  | of more avail than all multitudes; name *conj* | tree rules |

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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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