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title: Truly they had scarce won their way to the rock but for this, for wh… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: Truly they had scarce won their way to the rock but for this, for when they were most hardly pressed he drew back his own company the length of a bowshot. " Who acts: men, Dane. A sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, Of the Treachery of King John
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the Treachery of King John, sentence 86

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Truly they had scarce won their way to the rock but for this, for when they were most hardly pressed he drew back his own company the length of a bowshot. "

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**Who acts:** men, Dane · **What happens:** scarce, win, press, draw back · **To what, where:** way, men, own company

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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 (men, Dane), 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:pg75339:7:86
# text = Truly they had scarce won their way to the rock but for this, for when they were most hardly pressed he drew back his own company the length of a bowshot. "
1	Truly	truly	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	scarce	scarce	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	won	win	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
6	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	rock	rock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
11	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	for	for	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
15	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
16	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	21	advmod	_	_
17	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj:pass	_	_
18	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux:pass	_	_
19	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	20	advmod	_	_
20	hardly	hardly	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	pressed	press	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	23	advcl	_	_
22	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	drew	draw	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
24	back	back	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
25	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
26	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	company	company	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	length	length	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	bowshot	bowshot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
34	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **scarce** | past · perfect | men *= man* | men's way |  |  |  | to the rock for this; truly *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **win** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **press** | past · passive |  | men *= man* |  |  |  | hardly *property* | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 4 | **draw back** | past | Dane | Dane's own company |  |  |  | the length of a bowshot *obj* | vn create-26.4-1-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent company=Beneficiary length=Result |

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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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