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title: Long and fierce was the battle between these two, for they both were… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: Long and fierce was the battle between these two, for they both were as hardy knights as lived. Who acts: battle, hardy knights. A sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How Mawgis Became a Hermit, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of eve
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Mawgis Became a Hermit, sentence 19

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Long and fierce was the battle between these two, for they both were as hardy knights as lived.

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**Who acts:** battle, hardy knights · **What happens:** be, live · **To what, where:** Long battle

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This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How Mawgis Became a Hermit. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (battle, hardy 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:pg75339:10:19
# text = Long and fierce was the battle between these two, for they both were as hardy knights as lived.
1	Long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
3	fierce	fierce	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	conj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	battle	battle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	between	between	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	9	det	_	_
9	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
11	for	for	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
12	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
13	both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	12	appos	_	_
14	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
15	as	as	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	hardy	hardy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	knights	knight	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	conj	_	_
18	as	as	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	lived	live	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past |  | the Long battle and hardy knights |  |  |  | between this two | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | past | battle |  |  |  |  | for hardy knights | tree rules |
| 3 | **live** | past | hardy knights *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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