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title: These five knights, for all that they are brave warriors, cannot alw… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: These five knights, for all that they are brave warriors, cannot always prevail against the power of the King." Who acts: knights, five knights. A sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, Of the Treachery of King John, with its dependency tree and th
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the Treachery of King John, sentence 38

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These five knights, for all that they are brave warriors, cannot always prevail against the power of the King."

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**Who acts:** knights, five knights · **What happens:** be, not prevail · **To what, where:** power

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This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, Of the Treachery of King John. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (knights, five 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:pg75339:7:38
# text = These five knights, for all that they are brave warriors, cannot always prevail against the power of the King."
1	These	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	3	det	_	_
2	five	five	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	knights	knight	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
5	for	for	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
6	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	11	det:predet	_	_
7	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
8	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
9	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
10	brave	brave	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	warriors	warrior	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
13	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	16	advmod	_	_
15	always	always	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	16	advmod	_	_
16	prevail	prevail	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
17	against	against	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	power	power	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | knights *= knight* |  |  |  |  | for all brave warriors | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **prevail** | can | this five knights and all brave warriors |  |  | the power of the King |  | always *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme against power=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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