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title: Thereupon the Saracens made yet another assault on the Tower; so fie… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: Thereupon the Saracens made yet another assault on the Tower; so fierce was it that the air was as it were dark with arrows and darts and stones, great portions of the walls fell down, and the knights were greatly troubled. " Who acts: Saracens, air, knights. A sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne an
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of Guy of Burgundy, sentence 101

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Thereupon the Saracens made yet another assault on the Tower; so fierce was it that the air was as it were dark with arrows and darts and stones, great portions of the walls fell down, and the knights were greatly troubled. "

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**Who acts:** Saracens, air, knights · **What happens:** make, be, fall down · **To what, where:** assault, Tower

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This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, Of Guy of Burgundy. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Saracens, air, 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:pg75339:23:101
# text = Thereupon the Saracens made yet another assault on the Tower; so fierce was it that the air was as it were dark with arrows and darts and stones, great portions of the walls fell down, and the knights were greatly troubled. "
1	Thereupon	thereupon	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	Saracens	saracen	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	yet	yet	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
6	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	7	det	_	_
7	assault	assault	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
8	on	on	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	Tower	Tower	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	so	so	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	fierce	fierce	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	_
14	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
15	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obl	_	_
16	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
19	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
20	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
21	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
22	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
23	dark	dark	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	advcl	_	_
24	with	with	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	arrows	arrow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obl	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	darts	dart	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	conj	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
29	stones	stone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
31	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	portions	portion	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	conj	_	_
33	of	of	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	walls	wall	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	nmod	_	_
36	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
37	down	down	ADV	RB	_	36	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	44	punct	_	_
39	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	44	cc	_	_
40	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
41	knights	knight	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	44	nsubj	_	_
42	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	44	cop	_	_
43	greatly	greatly	ADV	RB	_	44	advmod	_	_
44	troubled	troubled	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
46	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | past | the Saracens | another assault |  | the Tower | yet | thereupon *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset assault=Product |
| 2 | **is a** | past |  | Tower |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** | past | the air |  |  |  |  | with arrows and darts and stones and great portions of the walls; dark *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **fall down** | past |  |  |  |  |  | down *property* | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **is** | past | the knights |  |  |  |  | greatly, troubled *property* | 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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