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title: Eight other Arab warriors he struck down from their saddles, and in… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: Eight other Arab warriors he struck down from their saddles, and in such sort they would never join in the battle any more. " Who acts: Eight other Arab warriors, men. A sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, The Battle, with its dependency tree an
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, The Battle, sentence 115

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Eight other Arab warriors he struck down from their saddles, and in such sort they would never join in the battle any more. "

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**Who acts:** Eight other Arab warriors, men · **What happens:** strike down, not join · **To what, where:** saddles

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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 (Eight other Arab warriors, men), 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:pg75339:31:115
# text = Eight other Arab warriors he struck down from their saddles, and in such sort they would never join in the battle any more. "
1	Eight	eight	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
2	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	Arab	Arab	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	warriors	warrior	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
5	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	struck	strike	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	down	down	ADP	RP	_	6	compound:prt	_	_
8	from	from	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	saddles	saddle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	sort	sort	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
16	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
17	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
18	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	19	advmod	_	_
19	join	join	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	battle	battle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
23	any	any	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	19	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
26	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **strike down** | past | Eight other Arab warriors |  |  | men's saddles |  | warrior *nsubj* | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **not** **join** | would | men *= man* |  |  |  |  | in the battle; in such sort | vn cooperate-73.1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in sort=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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