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title: He was a giant of great stature, with fiery eyes and skin as black a… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: He was a giant of great stature, with fiery eyes and skin as black as pitch, more like to a devil than to a man. Who acts: Gallafer. 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 pragmat
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How the Bridge Mantryble Was Won, sentence 8

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He was a giant of great stature, with fiery eyes and skin as black as pitch, more like to a devil than to a man.

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**Who acts:** Gallafer · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** giant

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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 (Gallafer), 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:pg75339:25:8
# text = He was a giant of great stature, with fiery eyes and skin as black as pitch, more like to a devil than to a man.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	giant	giant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	stature	stature	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	with	with	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	fiery	fiery	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	skin	skin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	_
14	as	as	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
16	as	as	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	pitch	pitch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
19	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	23	advmod	_	_
20	like	like	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	to	to	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	devil	devil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
24	than	than	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	to	to	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | Gallafer | a giant and fiery eyes and skin and a devil than a man |  |  |  | of great stature; fiery eyes and skin *conj*; a devil than a man *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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