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title: But not yet was the bridge won, for a great multitude of Saracens ca… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: But not yet was the bridge won, for a great multitude of Saracens came up to help them that kept it. Who acts: bridge, great multitude, that. A sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How the Bridge Mantryble Was Won, with its dependency tree and th
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How the Bridge Mantryble Was Won, sentence 43

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But not yet was the bridge won, for a great multitude of Saracens came up to help them that kept it.

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**Who acts:** bridge, great multitude, that · **What happens:** be, not win, come up, help, keep · **To what, where:** bridge, Frenchmen, multitude

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This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How the Bridge Mantryble Was Won. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bridge, great multitude, that), 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:pg75339:25:43
# text = But not yet was the bridge won, for a great multitude of Saracens came up to help them that kept it.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
2	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	7	advmod	_	_
3	yet	yet	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	bridge	bridge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	won	win	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	for	for	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	multitude	multitude	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	Saracens	Saracens	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
15	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	advcl	_	_
16	up	up	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	help	help	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	advcl	_	_
19	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	obj	_	_
20	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	21	nsubj	_	_
21	kept	keep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	advcl	_	_
22	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past |  | the bridge |  |  | yet |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **win** | past | the bridge |  |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **come up** | past | a great multitude of Saracens |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **help** | to-infinitive | a great multitude of Saracens *not said here* | Frenchmen *= frenchman* |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Beneficiary |
| 5 | **keep** | past | that | multitude |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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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