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title: Nevertheless they did so valiantly that at the last the King was fai… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: Nevertheless they did so valiantly that at the last the King was fain to withdraw his men. Who acts: defenders, King. A sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How It Fared With the Brethren, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clau
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How It Fared With the Brethren, sentence 57

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Nevertheless they did so valiantly that at the last the King was fain to withdraw his men.

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**Who acts:** defenders, King · **What happens:** do, be, withdraw · **To what, where:** last, men

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This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How It Fared With the Brethren. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (defenders, King), 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:pg75339:5:57
# text = Nevertheless they did so valiantly that at the last the King was fain to withdraw his men.
1	Nevertheless	nevertheless	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	so	so	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	valiantly	valiantly	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
6	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
7	at	at	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	obl	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
12	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	cop	_	_
13	fain	fain	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	advcl	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	withdraw	withdraw	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	xcomp	_	_
16	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past | defenders *= defender* |  |  |  |  | nevertheless, valiantly *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** | past | the King |  |  | the last |  | fain *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **withdraw** | to-infinitive | the King *not said here* | King's men |  |  |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=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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