--- title: It is true that many valiant peers and knights have perished, but th… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics description: It is true that many valiant peers and knights have perished, but they have left children behind them, and these, when they have grown to man's estate, will do those things wherein their fathers have failed. Who acts: town, peers, these, fathers. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (town, peers, these, fathers), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg75339:24:99 # text = It is true that many valiant peers and knights have perished, but they have left children behind them, and these, when they have grown to man's estate, will do those things wherein their fathers have failed. 1 It it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 2 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 cop _ _ 3 true true ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 0 root _ _ 4 that that SCONJ IN _ 11 mark _ _ 5 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 6 valiant valiant ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 peers peer NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 nsubj:pass _ _ 8 and and CCONJ CC _ 9 cc _ _ 9 knights knight NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 conj _ _ 10 have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 aux _ _ 11 perished perish VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 13 but but CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 14 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 15 have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 aux _ _ 16 left leave VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 3 parataxis _ _ 17 children child NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 obj _ _ 18 behind behind ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 19 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 20 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 22 these this DET DT Number=Plur|PronType=Dem 34 nsubj:outer _ SpaceAfter=No 23 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 24 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 27 advmod _ _ 25 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 27 nsubj _ _ 26 have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 27 aux _ _ 27 grown grow VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 22 acl _ _ 28 to to PART TO _ 31 mark _ _ 29 man man NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 30 's 's PART POS _ 29 case _ _ 31 estate estate NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 32 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 33 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 34 aux _ _ 34 do do VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 parataxis _ _ 35 those that DET DT Number=Plur|PronType=Dem 36 det _ _ 36 things thing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 34 obj _ _ 37 wherein wherein ADV WRB PronType=Int 41 advmod _ _ 38 their their PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 39 nmod:poss _ _ 39 fathers father NOUN NNS Number=Plur 41 nsubj _ _ 40 have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 41 aux _ _ 41 failed fail VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 34 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 42 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is** | present | town | | | | | true *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **perish** | present · perfect · passive | | many valiant peers and knights | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **leave** | present · perfect | peers *= peer* | children | | | | behind children *= child* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent child=Theme behind they=Location | | 4 | **grow** | present · perfect | peers *= peer* | man's estate | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **do** | future | these | that things | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Eventuality | | 6 | **fail** | present · perfect | peers's fathers | | | | | wherein *property* | vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 98](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg75339/24/98/) - next →: [sentence 100](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg75339/24/100/) - ↑ back to [Of Richard of Normandy](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg75339/24/)