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title: Many other valiant deeds he wrought that day, nor did Oliver lag beh… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: Many other valiant deeds he wrought that day, nor did Oliver lag behind, nor Turpin the Archbishop, riding on the famous horse which he took from the King of Denmark. Who acts: Many other valiant, valiant, Oliver, famous horse. A sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, The Battle, sentence 137

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Many other valiant deeds he wrought that day, nor did Oliver lag behind, nor Turpin the Archbishop, riding on the famous horse which he took from the King of Denmark.

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**Who acts:** Many other valiant, valiant, Oliver, famous horse · **What happens:** deed, wrought, lag behind, ride, take · **To what, where:** Turpin

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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 (Many other valiant, valiant, Oliver, famous 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:pg75339:31:137
# text = Many other valiant deeds he wrought that day, nor did Oliver lag behind, nor Turpin the Archbishop, riding on the famous horse which he took from the King of Denmark.
1	Many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
2	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	valiant	valiant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	deeds	deed	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	wrought	wrought	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	ccomp	_	_
7	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	8	det	_	_
8	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	13	cc	_	_
11	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
12	Oliver	Oliver	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
13	lag	lag	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	_
14	behind	behind	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	17	cc	_	_
17	Turpin	Turpin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	Archbishop	Archbishop	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
21	riding	ride	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	_
22	on	on	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	famous	famous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
26	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	28	nsubj	_	_
27	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
28	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	acl:relcl	_	_
29	from	from	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	_
32	of	of	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	Denmark	Denmark	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **deed** | present | Many other valiant | Turpin |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **wrought** | past | valiant |  |  |  | day |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **lag behind** | past · do-support | Oliver |  |  |  |  | behind *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **ride** | gerund | Many other valiant *not said here* |  |  |  |  | on the famous horse | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **take** | past | the famous horse |  |  |  |  | from the King of Denmark; Oliver *nsubj* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent from king=Initial\_Location |

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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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