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title: "But," answered the King, "there is no people that can be compared w… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: "But," answered the King, "there is no people that can be compared with mine. Who acts: King, people. 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 every clause.
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, The Treason of Ganelon, sentence 94

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"But," answered the King, "there is no people that can be compared with mine.

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**Who acts:** King, people · **What happens:** answer, be, compare · **To what, where:** people · **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, 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 (King, people), 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:pg75339:28:94
# text = "But," answered the King, "there is no people that can be compared with mine.
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	_
5	answered	answer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	11	expl	_	_
11	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
12	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	13	det	_	_
13	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
14	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	17	nsubj:pass	_	_
15	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
16	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	aux:pass	_	_
17	compared	compare	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	acl:relcl	_	_
18	with	with	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	mine	my	PRON	PRP	Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **answer** *speech: assert* | past | the King |  |  |  |  |  | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **does** *in a quote* | present | no people |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **compare** *in a quote* | can · passive |  | no people |  |  |  | with the King *= king* | vn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: subject=Patient with my=Co-Patient |

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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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