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title: Such is his will," answered Ganelon, "and there is no man of such st… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: Such is his will," answered Ganelon, "and there is no man of such stature as to be able to contend with him." " Who acts: Such, man. A sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, The Treason of Ganelon, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of eve
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, The Treason of Ganelon, sentence 5

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Such is his will," answered Ganelon, "and there is no man of such stature as to be able to contend with him." "

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**Who acts:** Such, man · **What happens:** answer, be, contend · **To what, where:** Ganelon

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This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, The Treason of Ganelon. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Such, man), 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:pg75339:28:5
# text = Such is his will," answered Ganelon, "and there is no man of such stature as to be able to contend with him." "
1	Such	Such	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	1	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
7	answered	answer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	Ganelon	Ganelon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
10	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	13	expl	_	_
13	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
14	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	15	det	_	_
15	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	stature	stature	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
19	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
20	to	to	PART	TO	_	22	mark	_	_
21	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	cop	_	_
22	able	able	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	parataxis	_	_
23	to	to	PART	TO	_	24	mark	_	_
24	contend	contend	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	xcomp	_	_
25	with	with	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	22	punct	_	_
29	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **answer** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | past | Such |  | Ganelon |  |  |  | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent ganelon=Eventuality |
| 2 | **be** | present | no man of such stature |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **is** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | able *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **contend** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | with Such | vn battle-36.4 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with he=Co-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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