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title: With one blow of his good Toledo sword he slew the African. " — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: With one blow of his good Toledo sword he slew the African. " Who acts: priest, good Toledo sword. 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 129

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With one blow of his good Toledo sword he slew the African. "

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**Who acts:** priest, good Toledo sword · **What happens:** slay, blow · **To what, where:** African

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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 (priest, good Toledo sword), 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:pg75339:31:129
# text = With one blow of his good Toledo sword he slew the African. "
1	With	with	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	blow	blow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
5	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
6	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
7	Toledo	toledo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	sword	sword	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
9	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	slew	slay	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	African	African	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
14	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
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| 1 | **slay** | past | priest | the African |  |  |  | with one blow of blow's good Toledo sword | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent african=Patient with blow=Instrument |
| 2 | **blow** |  | blow's good Toledo sword |  |  |  |  |  | nom blow «act intransitive»: of=agent |

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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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