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title: Among the heathen no man was braver or better at arms than Grandoign… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: Among the heathen no man was braver or better at arms than Grandoigne, but he was no match for Roland. Who acts: man, Grandoigne. A sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, The Battle, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, The Battle, sentence 135

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Among the heathen no man was braver or better at arms than Grandoigne, but he was no match for Roland.

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**Who acts:** man, Grandoigne · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** arms, match

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This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, The Battle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, Grandoigne), 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:pg75339:31:135
# text = Among the heathen no man was braver or better at arms than Grandoigne, but he was no match for Roland.
1	Among	among	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	heathen	heathen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
4	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	5	det	_	_
5	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
6	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
7	braver	brave	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	0	root	_	_
8	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	better	good	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	7	conj	_	_
10	at	at	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	arms	arm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
12	than	than	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	Grandoigne	Grandoigne	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
15	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
16	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
17	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
18	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	19	det	_	_
19	match	match	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
20	for	for	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	Roland	Roland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | no man |  |  | arms than Grandoigne |  | among the heathen; brave *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** |  | no man *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **is a** | past | Grandoigne | no match |  |  |  | for Roland | 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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