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title: And this they did so fiercely that the Frenchmen were well-nigh in d… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: And this they did so fiercely that the Frenchmen were well-nigh in despair. Who acts: this, Frenchmen. A sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, Of the End of Balan the Admiral, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the End of Balan the Admiral, sentence 29

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And this they did so fiercely that the Frenchmen were well-nigh in despair.

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**Who acts:** this, Frenchmen · **What happens:** do, be · **To what, where:** despair

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This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, Of the End of Balan the Admiral. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (this, Frenchmen), 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:pg75339:26:29
# text = And this they did so fiercely that the Frenchmen were well-nigh in despair.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	nsubj	_	_
3	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	so	so	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	fiercely	fiercely	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
7	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	Frenchmen	Frenchman	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	15	nsubj	_	_
10	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
11	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	13	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	nigh	nigh	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	despair	despair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **do** | past | this |  |  |  |  | Saracens *= saracen* *nsubj*; fiercely *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** | past | the Frenchmen |  |  | despair |  | nigh *property* | 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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