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description: Then had Gerard perished but for his two brothers Benes and Bron, who with no small trouble drew him out of the press. Who acts: Gerard, Benes. A sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How the Duke Benes Came By His End, with its dependency tree an
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How the Duke Benes Came By His End, sentence 52

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Then had Gerard perished but for his two brothers Benes and Bron, who with no small trouble drew him out of the press.

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**Who acts:** Gerard, Benes · **What happens:** have, perish, draw · **To what, where:** Charles, press

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This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How the Duke Benes Came By His End. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Gerard, Benes), 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:pg75339:4:52
# text = Then had Gerard perished but for his two brothers Benes and Bron, who with no small trouble drew him out of the press.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	2	advmod	_	_
2	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	Gerard	Gerard	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	perished	perish	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	ccomp	_	_
5	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
6	for	for	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
8	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	9	nummod	_	_
9	brothers	brother	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	_
10	Benes	Bene	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	9	conj	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	Bron	Bron	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
14	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	19	nsubj	_	_
15	with	with	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	18	det	_	_
17	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	trouble	trouble	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
19	drew	draw	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	acl:relcl	_	_
20	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	obj	_	_
21	out	out	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	press	press	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past |  |  |  |  | then |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **perish** | past | Gerard |  |  |  |  | Charles's two brothers and Benes and Bron *conj* | vn break\_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **draw** | past | Benes and Bron | Charles |  | the press |  | with no small trouble | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent he=Theme out press=Initial\_Location |

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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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