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title: He struck his spurs of gold into his charger's flanks, and smote Fau… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: He struck his spurs of gold into his charger's flanks, and smote Fausseron with a right knightly blow. Who acts: Oliver. 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 23

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He struck his spurs of gold into his charger's flanks, and smote Fausseron with a right knightly blow.

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**Who acts:** Oliver · **What happens:** strike, smite, spur · **To what, where:** spurs, flanks, Fausseron, gold

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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 (Oliver), 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:pg75339:31:23
# text = He struck his spurs of gold into his charger's flanks, and smote Fausseron with a right knightly blow.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	struck	strike	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	spurs	spur	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
7	into	into	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
8	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	charger	charger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	's	's	PART	POS	_	9	case	_	_
11	flanks	flank	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	smote	smite	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
15	Fausseron	Fausseron	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
16	with	with	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
18	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
19	knightly	knightly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	blow	blow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **strike** | past | Oliver | Oliver's spurs of gold |  |  |  | into Oliver's charger's flanks *result* | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent spur=Patient into flank=Result |
| 2 | **smite** | past | Oliver *not said here* | Fausseron |  |  |  | with a right knightly blow | vn hit-18.1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent fausseron=Patient with blow=Instrument |
| 3 | **spur** |  | Oliver | gold |  |  |  |  | nom spur «communication transitive»: poss=agent of=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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