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title: All quitted themselves as good knights, but there was none who bore… — 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 Charlemagne Sought Vengeance, sentence 182

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All quitted themselves as good knights, but there was none who bore himself so bravely as Ogier the Dane.

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**Who acts:** none · **What happens:** quitt, be, bear · **To what, where:** men, King

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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 (none), 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:pg75339:36:182
# text = All quitted themselves as good knights, but there was none who bore himself so bravely as Ogier the Dane.
1	All	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	2	advmod	_	_
2	quitted	quitt	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	themselves	themselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	2	obj	_	_
4	as	as	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	knights	knight	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	10	expl	_	_
10	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
11	none	none	PRON	NN	PronType=Neg	10	nsubj	_	_
12	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	13	nsubj	_	_
13	bore	bear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	acl:relcl	_	_
14	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	13	obj	_	_
15	so	so	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	bravely	bravely	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
17	as	as	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	Ogier	Ogier	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	Dane	Dane	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **quitt** | past |  | men *= man* |  |  |  | as good knights | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** | past | none |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **bear** | past |  | King |  |  |  | who *nsubj*; bravely *property* | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Patient |

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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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