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title: Their horses also were in a sore plight, for they had nothing to eat… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: Their horses also were in a sore plight, for they had nothing to eat save only such roots as they could find in the ground. Who acts: horses, knights. 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
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How It Fared With the Brethren, sentence 94

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Their horses also were in a sore plight, for they had nothing to eat save only such roots as they could find in the ground.

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**Who acts:** horses, knights · **What happens:** be, have, eat, save, find · **To what, where:** sore plight, nothing, such roots, ground

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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 (horses, knights), 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:pg75339:5:94
# text = Their horses also were in a sore plight, for they had nothing to eat save only such roots as they could find in the ground.
1	Their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	horses	horse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
3	also	also	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
4	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	sore	sore	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	plight	plight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	for	for	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	parataxis	_	_
13	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	12	obj	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	eat	eat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	acl	_	_
16	save	save	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	xcomp	_	_
17	only	only	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
18	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	roots	root	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obj	_	_
20	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
21	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
22	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
23	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	advcl	_	_
24	in	in	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | knights's horses |  |  | a sore plight |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **have** | past | knights *= knight* | nothing |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Patient |
| 3 | **eat** | to-infinitive | knights *= knight* *not said here* | nothing *not said here* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **save** | infinitive | knights *= knight* *not said here* | such roots |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent root=Theme |
| 5 | **find** | could | knights *= knight* |  |  | the ground |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent |

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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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