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title: So saying he smote the image of Jupiter that it fell to the ground,… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: So saying he smote the image of Jupiter that it fell to the ground, and Ogier the Dane smote another of the images. Who acts: image, Ogier. A sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, Of the Doings of the French Knights, with its dependency tree and t
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the Doings of the French Knights, sentence 83

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So saying he smote the image of Jupiter that it fell to the ground, and Ogier the Dane smote another of the images.

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**Who acts:** image, Ogier · **What happens:** say, smite, fall, image · **To what, where:** image, another, Jupiter · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, Of the Doings of the French Knights. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (image, Ogier), 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:pg75339:22:83
# text = So saying he smote the image of Jupiter that it fell to the ground, and Ogier the Dane smote another of the images.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	saying	say	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	nsubj	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	smote	smite	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	image	image	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	Jupiter	Jupiter	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
9	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
10	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	advcl	_	_
12	to	to	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
17	Ogier	Ogier	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	Dane	Dane	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	appos	_	_
20	smote	smite	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
21	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	20	obj	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	images	image	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **smite** | past |  | the image of Jupiter |  |  |  | Guy *nsubj* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus image=Experiencer |
| 3 | **fall** | past | image |  |  |  |  | to the ground | vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to ground=Theme |
| 4 | **smite** | past | Ogier | another of the images |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus another=Experiencer |
| 5 | **image** |  |  | Jupiter |  |  |  |  | nom image «cognition 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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