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title: Many a time have we wielded them side by side; many a victory have w… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: Many a time have we wielded them side by side; many a victory have we won with them. Who acts: we, many victory. 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 82

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Many a time have we wielded them side by side; many a victory have we won with them.

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**Who acts:** we, many victory · **What happens:** have, wield, win · **To what, where:** fellows

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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 (we, many victory), 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:pg75339:31:82
# text = Many a time have we wielded them side by side; many a victory have we won with them.
1	Many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl:unmarked	_	_
4	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	wielded	wield	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	ccomp	_	_
7	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	obj	_	_
8	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl:unmarked	_	_
9	by	by	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	_
12	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	victory	victory	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
15	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
16	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	won	win	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	15	xcomp	_	_
18	with	with	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present |  |  |  |  | time |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **wield** | past | we | fellows *= fellow* |  |  |  | side by side *obl:unmarked* | vn hold-15.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |
| 3 | **have** | present | a many victory |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **win** | participle | we |  |  |  |  | with fellows *= fellow* | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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