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title: Therewith he smote Chimborin so mighty a blow that he slew both man… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: Therewith he smote Chimborin so mighty a blow that he slew both man and horse. Who acts: Engelier. A sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, The Battle, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, The Battle, sentence 113

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Therewith he smote Chimborin so mighty a blow that he slew both man and horse.

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**Who acts:** Engelier · **What happens:** smite, slay · **To what, where:** Chimborin, man

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This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, The Battle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Engelier), 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:pg75339:31:113
# text = Therewith he smote Chimborin so mighty a blow that he slew both man and horse.
1	Therewith	therewith	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	smote	smite	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	Chimborin	Chimborin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
5	so	so	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	mighty	mighty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	blow	blow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
9	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
10	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	slew	slay	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
12	both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	13	det	_	_
13	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **smite** | past | Engelier | Chimborin |  |  |  | a mighty blow *obj*; therewith *property* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Stimulus chimborin=Experiencer blow=Result |
| 2 | **slay** | past | Engelier | both man and horse |  |  |  |  | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=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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