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title: But for many days to come they had no rest from their enemies, nor o… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: But for many days to come they had no rest from their enemies, nor of all that pursued them was there one that did them more damage than did Aymon their father. Who acts: knights, that, more damage. A sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How It F
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How It Fared With the Brethren, sentence 92

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But for many days to come they had no rest from their enemies, nor of all that pursued them was there one that did them more damage than did Aymon their father.

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**Who acts:** knights, that, more damage · **What happens:** come, have, pursue, be, do · **To what, where:** rest, enemies, knights, Aymon father

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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 (knights, that, more damage), 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:pg75339:5:92
# text = But for many days to come they had no rest from their enemies, nor of all that pursued them was there one that did them more damage than did Aymon their father.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
2	for	for	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	acl	_	_
7	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	advcl	_	_
9	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	10	det	_	_
10	rest	rest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	from	from	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	enemies	enemy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
15	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	19	cc	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	19	advmod	_	_
18	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	19	nsubj	_	_
19	pursued	pursue	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
20	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	obj	_	_
21	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	cop	_	_
22	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	0	root	_	_
23	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	22	conj	_	_
24	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	25	nsubj	_	_
25	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	acl:relcl	_	_
26	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	obj	_	_
27	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	28	amod	_	_
28	damage	damage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
29	than	than	SCONJ	IN	_	30	mark	_	_
30	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	acl:relcl	_	_
31	Aymon	Aymon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	compound	_	_
32	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	33	nmod:poss	_	_
33	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	22	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | to-infinitive | knights *= knight* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **have** | past | knights *= knight* | no rest |  | knights's enemies | day |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rest=Patient |
| 3 | **pursue** | past | that | knights *= knight* |  |  |  |  | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |
| 4 | **is** | past |  |  |  |  |  | one *conj*; there *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **do** | past |  | knights *= knight* |  |  |  | more damage *obj* | tree rules |
| 6 | **do** | past | more damage *not said here* | knights's Aymon father |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent father=Eventuality |

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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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