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title: These brought great engines of war with which to throw great stones… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: These brought great engines of war with which to throw great stones against the Tower. Who acts: These. A sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, Of the End of Balan the Admiral, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the End of Balan the Admiral, sentence 10

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These brought great engines of war with which to throw great stones against the Tower.

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**Who acts:** These · **What happens:** bring, throw · **To what, where:** great engines, great stones

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This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, Of the End of Balan the Admiral. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (These), 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:pg75339:26:10
# text = These brought great engines of war with which to throw great stones against the Tower.
1	These	this	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	2	nsubj	_	_
2	brought	bring	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	engines	engine	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	war	war	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
7	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	10	obl	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	throw	throw	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	acl:relcl	_	_
11	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	stones	stone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	_
13	against	against	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	Tower	Tower	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bring** | past | These | great engines of war |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent engine=Theme |
| 2 | **throw** | to-infinitive | These *not said here* | great stones |  |  |  | with war; against the Tower | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent stone=Theme against tower=Destination |

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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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