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title: A right good warrior was he; had he but been a Christian but few had… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: A right good warrior was he; had he but been a Christian but few had matched him in battle! Who acts: right good warrior. 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 68

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A right good warrior was he; had he but been a Christian but few had matched him in battle!

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**Who acts:** right good warrior · **What happens:** be, have, match · **To what, where:** King, battle

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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 (right good warrior), 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:pg75339:31:68
# text = A right good warrior was he; had he but been a Christian but few had matched him in battle!
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	warrior	warrior	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
6	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
8	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
10	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
11	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	17	aux:pass	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
13	Christian	Christian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	flat	_	_
14	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	conj	_	_
16	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	matched	match	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	xcomp	_	_
18	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	obj	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	battle	battle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past |  | King |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **have** | past | a right good warrior |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **match** | participle · perfect · passive |  | King |  | battle |  | warrior *obj* | 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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