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title: Not so; but I will deal these heathen some mighty blows with Durenda… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: Not so; but I will deal these heathen some mighty blows with Durendal my sword. Who acts: I. A sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How the Heathen and the French Prepared For Battle, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How the Heathen and the French Prepared For Battle, sentence 15

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Not so; but I will deal these heathen some mighty blows with Durendal my sword.

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**Who acts:** I · **What happens:** deal · **To what, where:** heathen

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This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How the Heathen and the French Prepared For Battle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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:pg75339:30:15
# text = Not so; but I will deal these heathen some mighty blows with Durendal my sword.
1	Not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	2	advmod	_	_
2	so	so	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	7	punct	_	_
4	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
5	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
6	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	deal	deal	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
8	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	9	det	_	_
9	heathen	heathen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	12	det	_	_
11	mighty	mighty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	blows	blow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
13	with	with	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	Durendal	Durendal	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
15	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	sword	sword	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **deal** | future | I | this heathen |  |  |  | some mighty blows  my sword *obj* | vn give-13.1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent heathen=Recipient blow=Theme |

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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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