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title: Meanwhile the two warriors met in the shock of battle, and that so f… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: Meanwhile the two warriors met in the shock of battle, and that so fiercely that the sparks flew from their spearheads when they smote on the shields, and that the shafts of both were broken. Who acts: two warriors, that, warrior. A sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France»
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Oliver Fought With Fierabras, sentence 21

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Meanwhile the two warriors met in the shock of battle, and that so fiercely that the sparks flew from their spearheads when they smote on the shields, and that the shafts of both were broken.

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**Who acts:** two warriors, that, warrior · **What happens:** meet, fly, smite, break, shock · **To what, where:** shock, spearheads, shafts, battle

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This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How Oliver Fought With Fierabras. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (two warriors, that, warrior), 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:pg75339:17:21
# text = Meanwhile the two warriors met in the shock of battle, and that so fiercely that the sparks flew from their spearheads when they smote on the shields, and that the shafts of both were broken.
1	Meanwhile	meanwhile	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
4	warriors	warrior	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
5	met	meet	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	shock	shock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	battle	battle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
13	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	19	nsubj	_	_
14	so	so	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	fiercely	fiercely	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
16	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	sparks	spark	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nsubj	_	_
19	flew	fly	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
20	from	from	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	spearheads	spearhead	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obl	_	_
23	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	25	advmod	_	_
24	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
25	smote	smite	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	conj	_	_
26	on	on	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	shields	shield	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
31	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	37	mark	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	shafts	shaft	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	37	nsubj:pass	_	_
34	of	of	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	33	nmod	_	_
36	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	37	aux:pass	_	_
37	broken	break	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **meet** | past | the two warriors |  |  | the shock of battle |  | meanwhile *property* | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **fly** | past | that |  |  | sparks's spearheads |  | the sparks *nsubj*; fiercely *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from spearhead=Trajectory |
| 3 | **smite** | past | warrior |  |  |  |  | on the shields | vn hit-18.1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent on shield=Patient |
| 4 | **break** | past · passive |  | the shafts of both |  |  |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 5 | **shock** |  |  | battle |  |  |  |  | nom shock «feeling transitive»: of=patient |

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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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