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title: Nevertheless the horse Bayard was plump and strong, while the others… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: Nevertheless the horse Bayard was plump and strong, while the others were so lean and weak that they could scarce stand. Who acts: horse, others, horses. 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 t
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How It Fared With the Brethren, sentence 95

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Nevertheless the horse Bayard was plump and strong, while the others were so lean and weak that they could scarce stand.

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**Who acts:** horse, others, horses · **What happens:** be, stand

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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 (horse, others, horses), 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:pg75339:5:95
# text = Nevertheless the horse Bayard was plump and strong, while the others were so lean and weak that they could scarce stand.
1	Nevertheless	nevertheless	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
4	Bayard	Bayard	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	appos	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
6	plump	plump	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	strong	strong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
10	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	others	other	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nsubj	_	_
13	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
14	so	so	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	lean	lean	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	conj	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	weak	weak	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	conj	_	_
18	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
19	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
20	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
21	scarce	scarce	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	stand	stand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the horse |  |  |  |  | nevertheless, plump *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** |  | the horse *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** | past | the others |  |  |  |  | lean *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **be** |  | the others *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **stand** | could | horses *= horse* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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