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title: But they have no victual save what they can win with their swords; t… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: But they have no victual save what they can win with their swords; the Admiral also has a mighty host of Saracens about the Tower." Who acts: knights, victual, Admiral. A sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, Of Richard of Normandy, with its depen
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of Richard of Normandy, sentence 127

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But they have no victual save what they can win with their swords; the Admiral also has a mighty host of Saracens about the Tower."

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**Who acts:** knights, victual, Admiral · **What happens:** have, save, win · **To what, where:** mighty host

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This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, Of Richard of Normandy. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (knights, victual, Admiral), 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:pg75339:24:127
# text = But they have no victual save what they can win with their swords; the Admiral also has a mighty host of Saracens about the Tower."
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	5	det	_	_
5	victual	victual	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	save	save	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
7	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	10	obj	_	_
8	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
9	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	win	win	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	ccomp	_	_
11	with	with	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	swords	sword	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	Admiral	Admiral	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
17	also	also	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	mighty	mighty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	host	host	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	Saracens	saracen	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nmod	_	_
24	about	about	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	Tower	Tower	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | knights *= knight* |  |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **save** | present | no victual |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **win** | can | knights *= knight* |  |  |  |  | with knights's swords; what *obj* | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality |
| 4 | **have** | present | the Admiral | a mighty host of Saracens about the Tower |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent host=Patient |

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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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