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title: Never did he feel a greater sorrow for comrade slain, save Oliver on… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Archbishop Turpin Died, sentence 91

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Never did he feel a greater sorrow for comrade slain, save Oliver only. "

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**Who acts:** heart · **What happens:** not feel, save · **To what, where:** greater sorrow, Oliver

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This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How Archbishop Turpin Died. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (heart), 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:pg75339:34:91
# text = Never did he feel a greater sorrow for comrade slain, save Oliver only. "
1	Never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
2	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	feel	feel	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	greater	great	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	7	amod	_	_
7	sorrow	sorrow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
8	for	for	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	comrade	comrade	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	slain	slain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	save	save	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
13	Oliver	Oliver	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
14	only	only	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
16	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **feel** | past · do-support | heart | a greater sorrow |  |  |  | for comrade slain | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent sorrow=Location for slain=Theme |
| 2 | **save** | infinitive | heart *not said here* | Oliver |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent oliver=Theme |

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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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