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title: There was neither hill nor valley nor forest between them; each was… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: There was neither hill nor valley nor forest between them; each was in full sight of the other. Who acts: hill, each. A sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How Charlemagne Sought Vengeance, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every cl
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Charlemagne Sought Vengeance, sentence 134

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There was neither hill nor valley nor forest between them; each was in full sight of the other.

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**Who acts:** hill, each · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** full sight

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This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How Charlemagne Sought Vengeance. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hill, each), 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:pg75339:36:134
# text = There was neither hill nor valley nor forest between them; each was in full sight of the other.
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	2	expl	_	_
2	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	neither	neither	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	4	cc:preconj	_	_
4	hill	hill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
5	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	6	cc	_	_
6	valley	valley	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
7	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	8	cc	_	_
8	forest	forest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
9	between	between	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
12	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	16	nsubj	_	_
13	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	sight	sight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | past | hill nor valley nor forest between valleys |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | past | each |  |  | full sight |  | of the other | 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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