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title: Nor was the force of the blow yet spent: it reached the giant's shou… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: Nor was the force of the blow yet spent: it reached the giant's shoulder, but the cuirass which was of stout leather of Cappadocia, stayed it; nevertheless the giant's feet were thrust out of the stirrups, and he came very near to being overthrown. Who acts: Nor, blow, cuirass. A sentence of «Storie
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Oliver Fought With Fierabras, sentence 25

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Nor was the force of the blow yet spent: it reached the giant's shoulder, but the cuirass which was of stout leather of Cappadocia, stayed it; nevertheless the giant's feet were thrust out of the stirrups, and he came very near to being overthrown.

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**Who acts:** Nor, blow, cuirass · **What happens:** be, spend, reach, stay, come, overthrow · **To what, where:** force, stirrups, shoulder, thrust

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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 (Nor, blow, cuirass), 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:pg75339:17:25
# text = Nor was the force of the blow yet spent: it reached the giant's shoulder, but the cuirass which was of stout leather of Cappadocia, stayed it; nevertheless the giant's feet were thrust out of the stirrups, and he came very near to being overthrown.
1	Nor	Nor	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	force	force	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	parataxis	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	blow	blow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
8	yet	yet	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	spent	spend	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
11	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	reached	reach	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	giant	giant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	's	's	PART	POS	_	14	case	_	_
16	shoulder	shoulder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	cuirass	cuirass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
21	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	25	nsubj	_	_
22	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	cop	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	stout	stout	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	leather	leather	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	acl:relcl	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	Cappadocia	Cappadocia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
29	stayed	stay	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
30	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
32	nevertheless	nevertheless	ADV	RB	_	36	advmod	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	giant	giant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	's	's	PART	POS	_	34	case	_	_
36	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	38	nmod:unmarked	_	_
37	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	38	cop	_	_
38	thrust	thrust	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
39	out	out	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
40	of	of	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
41	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
42	stirrups	stirrup	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	46	punct	_	_
44	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	46	cc	_	_
45	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	46	nsubj	_	_
46	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
47	very	very	ADV	RB	_	48	advmod	_	_
48	near	near	ADV	RB	_	46	advmod	_	_
49	to	to	SCONJ	IN	_	51	mark	_	_
50	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	51	aux:pass	_	_
51	overthrown	overthrow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	46	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | Nor | the force |  |  |  | of the blow | tree rules |
| 2 | **spend** | past |  |  |  | the stirrups | yet |  | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **reach** | past | blow | the giant's shoulder |  |  |  | the cuirass *obl* | vn body\_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent shoulder=Theme |
| 4 | **is** | past | the cuirass |  |  |  |  | of stout leather; of Cappadocia | tree rules |
| 5 | **stay** | past | blow *not said here* | shoulder |  |  |  |  | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme it=Location |
| 6 | **is a** | past |  | thrust |  |  |  | the giant's feet *nmod:unmarked* | tree rules |
| 7 | **come** | past | Nor |  |  |  |  | near *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 8 | **overthrow** | gerund · passive | Nor *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | 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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