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description: Many answered his call; nevertheless he was so hard pressed that there was scarce any hope left to him. Who acts: Many, hope, King. 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 the pragmati
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How the Bridge Mantryble Was Won, sentence 50

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Many answered his call; nevertheless he was so hard pressed that there was scarce any hope left to him.

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**Who acts:** Many, hope, King · **What happens:** answer, press, be, leave, call · **To what, where:** call, King, hope · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Many, hope, King), 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:pg75339:25:50
# text = Many answered his call; nevertheless he was so hard pressed that there was scarce any hope left to him.
1	Many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	nsubj	_	_
2	answered	answer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	call	call	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	_
6	nevertheless	nevertheless	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
7	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj:pass	_	_
8	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux:pass	_	_
9	so	so	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	hard	hard	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	11	advmod	_	_
11	pressed	press	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	parataxis	_	_
12	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
13	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	15	expl	_	_
14	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
15	scarce	scarce	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	conj	_	_
16	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	17	det	_	_
17	hope	hope	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
18	left	leave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	acl	_	_
19	to	to	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **answer** *speech: assert* | past | Many | King's call |  |  |  |  | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent call=Eventuality |
| 2 | **press** | past · passive |  | King |  |  |  | hard, nevertheless *property* | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V NP ADJP-Result»: subject=Result |
| 3 | **is** | past | any hope |  |  | there |  | scarce *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **leave** | participle |  | any hope *not said here* | King |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to he=Initial\_Location |
| 5 | **call** |  | King |  |  |  |  |  | nom call «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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