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title: For all this they made such slaughter among the heathen that King Al… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: For all this they made such slaughter among the heathen that King Almaris, who led the armies of the enemy, scarcely could win back his way to his own people, wounded in four places and sorely spent. Who acts: thrust, King. A sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alf
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, The Battle, sentence 67

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For all this they made such slaughter among the heathen that King Almaris, who led the armies of the enemy, scarcely could win back his way to his own people, wounded in four places and sorely spent.

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**Who acts:** thrust, King · **What happens:** make, lead, win back, wound, spend · **To what, where:** such slaughter, armies, way, own people, four places

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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 (thrust, King), 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:pg75339:31:67
# text = For all this they made such slaughter among the heathen that King Almaris, who led the armies of the enemy, scarcely could win back his way to his own people, wounded in four places and sorely spent.
1	For	for	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	3	det:predet	_	_
3	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	obl	_	_
4	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	slaughter	slaughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	among	among	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	heathen	heathen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
11	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
12	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	appos	_	_
13	Almaris	Almaris	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	16	nsubj	_	_
16	led	lead	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	acl:relcl	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	armies	army	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obj	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	enemy	enemy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
23	scarcely	scarcely	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
24	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
25	win	win	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	conj	_	_
26	back	back	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
27	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
28	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
29	to	to	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
30	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	32	nmod:poss	_	_
31	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
34	wounded	wound	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	32	acl	_	_
35	in	in	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	37	nummod	_	_
37	places	place	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	obl	_	_
38	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	40	cc	_	_
39	sorely	sorely	ADV	RB	_	40	advmod	_	_
40	spent	spend	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	34	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | past | thrust | such slaughter |  |  |  | for this; among the heathen | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP P.asset»: agent=Agent slaughter=Product for this=Asset |
| 2 | **lead** | past | King | the armies of the enemy |  |  |  |  | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent army=Theme |
| 3 | **win back** | could | King *not said here* | King's way |  |  |  | to King's own people; scarcely *property* | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **wound** | participle |  | King's own people *not said here* |  | four places |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 5 | **spend** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | sorely *property* | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=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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