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title: Never was there such a horse in the world, save only Bucephalus, tha… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: Never was there such a horse in the world, save only Bucephalus, that was the horse of Alexander of Macedon. Who acts: you, that. A sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, The Slaying of Lothair, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every 
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, The Slaying of Lothair, sentence 87

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Never was there such a horse in the world, save only Bucephalus, that was the horse of Alexander of Macedon.

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**Who acts:** you, that · **What happens:** not be, save, be · **To what, where:** Bucephalus, horse

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This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, The Slaying of Lothair. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, that), 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:pg75339:3:87
# text = Never was there such a horse in the world, save only Bucephalus, that was the horse of Alexander of Macedon.
1	Never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	3	advmod	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	11	advmod	_	_
4	such	such	DET	PDT	PronType=Ind	6	det:predet	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	parataxis	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
11	save	save	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	only	only	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	Bucephalus	Bucephalus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	18	nsubj	_	_
16	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	appos	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	Alexander	Alexander	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	Macedon	Macedon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **is** | past |  |  |  |  |  | such horse in the world *parataxis*; there *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **save** | imperative | you *not said here* | Bucephalus |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bucephalus=Theme |
| 3 | **is a** | past | that | the horse |  |  |  | of Alexander of Macedon | 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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