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title: Each brake the corselet of the other with his spear's point; but Rol… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: Each brake the corselet of the other with his spear's point; but Roland dealt Maradas such a blow that he brake his helmet from off his head, and then, quickly recovering himself, smote him on his bare skull and cleft it to the brain, so that he fell down dead. Who acts: you, Roland, Maradas, spear.
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the Bridge of Mantryble, sentence 45

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Each brake the corselet of the other with his spear's point; but Roland dealt Maradas such a blow that he brake his helmet from off his head, and then, quickly recovering himself, smote him on his bare skull and cleft it to the brain, so that he fell down dead.

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**Who acts:** you, Roland, Maradas, spear · **What happens:** break, deal, blow, recover, smote, fall down · **To what, where:** corselet, helmet, Maradas, bare skull

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This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, Of the Bridge of Mantryble. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, Roland, Maradas, spear), 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:pg75339:20:45
# text = Each brake the corselet of the other with his spear's point; but Roland dealt Maradas such a blow that he brake his helmet from off his head, and then, quickly recovering himself, smote him on his bare skull and cleft it to the brain, so that he fell down dead.
1	Each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	2	advmod	_	_
2	brake	break	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	corselet	corselet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	nmod	_	_
8	with	with	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
9	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	spear	spear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	's	's	PART	POS	_	10	case	_	_
12	point	point	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
14	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
15	Roland	Roland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
16	dealt	deal	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
17	Maradas	Maradas	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
18	such	such	DET	PDT	PronType=Ind	20	det:predet	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	blow	blow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
21	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
22	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	brake	break	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	acl:relcl	_	_
24	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	helmet	helmet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
26	from	from	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
27	off	off	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
29	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
32	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	35	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
34	quickly	quickly	ADV	RB	_	35	advmod	_	_
35	recovering	recover	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	16	advcl	_	_
36	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	35	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
38	smote	smote	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
39	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	38	obj	_	_
40	on	on	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
41	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	43	nmod:poss	_	_
42	bare	bare	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	43	amod	_	_
43	skull	skull	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	obl	_	_
44	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	45	cc	_	_
45	cleft	cleft	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	conj	_	_
46	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	38	obj	_	_
47	to	to	ADP	IN	_	49	case	_	_
48	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	49	det	_	_
49	brain	brain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	54	punct	_	_
51	so	so	SCONJ	IN	ExtPos=SCONJ	54	mark	_	_
52	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	51	fixed	_	_
53	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	54	nsubj	_	_
54	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	38	conj	_	_
55	down	down	ADV	RB	_	56	advmod	_	_
56	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	54	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
57	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **break** | imperative | you *not said here* | the corselet of the other with Maradas's spear's point |  |  |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer corselet=Patient |
| 2 | **deal** | past | Roland |  |  |  |  |  | vn cope-83 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **blow** |  | Maradas |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **break** | past | Maradas | Maradas's helmet |  |  |  | from Maradas's head | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent helmet=Patient from head=Co-Patient |
| 5 | **recover** | gerund | Roland *not said here* | Maradas |  |  | then | quickly *property* | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Theme |
| 6 | **smote** | infinitive | you *not said here* | Maradas |  | Maradas's bare skull and cleft |  | to the brain; helmet *obj* | tree rules |
| 7 | **fall down** | past | Maradas |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 8 | **point** |  | Maradas's spear |  |  |  |  |  | nom point «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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