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title: Many lances were shivered, many flags torn, and many gallant youths… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: Many lances were shivered, many flags torn, and many gallant youths cut off in their prime. 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 58

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Many lances were shivered, many flags torn, and many gallant youths cut off in their prime.

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**What happens:** shiver, tear, cut off · **To what, where:** Many lances, many flags, many gallant youths, prime

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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: 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:pg75339:31:58
# text = Many lances were shivered, many flags torn, and many gallant youths cut off in their prime.
1	Many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	lances	lance	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	shivered	shiver	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	flags	flag	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
8	torn	tear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
11	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
12	gallant	gallant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	youths	youth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	parataxis	_	_
14	cut	cut	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	acl	_	_
15	off	off	ADP	RP	_	14	compound:prt	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	prime	prime	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **shiver** | past · passive |  | Many lances |  |  |  | many flags *obl*; many gallant youths *parataxis* | tree rules |
| 2 | **tear** | participle |  | many flags *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **cut off** | participle |  | many gallant youths *not said here* |  | lances's prime |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |

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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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