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title: When he was mounted on him he seemed such a knight as could scarce b… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: When he was mounted on him he seemed such a knight as could scarce be matched in France or any other land. Who acts: horse. 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 clause
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, The Slaying of Lothair, sentence 88

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When he was mounted on him he seemed such a knight as could scarce be matched in France or any other land.

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**Who acts:** horse · **What happens:** mount, seem, match · **To what, where:** horse, knight, France

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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 (horse), 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:pg75339:3:88
# text = When he was mounted on him he seemed such a knight as could scarce be matched in France or any other land.
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	mounted	mount	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	advcl	_	_
5	on	on	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obl	_	_
7	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	seemed	seem	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	such	such	DET	PDT	PronType=Ind	11	det:predet	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	knight	knight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
12	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
13	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
14	scarce	scarce	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	compound	_	_
15	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	aux:pass	_	_
16	matched	match	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	xcomp	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	France	France	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
19	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
20	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	22	det	_	_
21	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mount** | past · passive |  | horse |  |  |  | on Alexander | vn put-9.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme on he=Destination |
| 2 | **seem** | past | horse | such knight |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **match** | could · passive | horse *not said here* |  |  | France or any other land |  |  | vn amalgamate-22.2-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle» |

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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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