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title: So equally matched were they that neither gained any advantage in th… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: So equally matched were they that neither gained any advantage in the encounter. A sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, Of the Punishment of Ganelon, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the Punishment of Ganelon, sentence 56

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So equally matched were they that neither gained any advantage in the encounter.

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**What happens:** match, be, gain · **To what, where:** hostages, advantage

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This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, Of the Punishment of Ganelon. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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:pg75339:37:56
# text = So equally matched were they that neither gained any advantage in the encounter.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	equally	equally	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	matched	match	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obl	_	_
6	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
7	neither	neither	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	gained	gain	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
9	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	10	det	_	_
10	advantage	advantage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	encounter	encounter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **match** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | equally *property* | vn amalgamate-22.2-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **is a** | past |  | hostages *= hostage* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **gain** | past |  | any advantage |  |  |  | in the encounter; neither *property* | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute NP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: agent=Patient advantage=Extent in encounter=Attribute |

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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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