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title: Strike thou with thy sword Hautclere, and I will strike with my swor… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: Strike thou with thy sword Hautclere, and I will strike with my sword Durendal. Who acts: Strike. 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 81

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Strike thou with thy sword Hautclere, and I will strike with my sword Durendal.

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**Who acts:** Strike · **What happens:** strike

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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 (Strike), 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:pg75339:31:81
# text = Strike thou with thy sword Hautclere, and I will strike with my sword Durendal.
1	Strike	strike	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
2	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	1	nmod	_	_
3	with	with	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	sword	sword	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
6	Hautclere	Hautclere	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
9	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
10	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	strike	strike	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
12	with	with	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	sword	sword	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
15	Durendal	Durendal	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **strike** | future | Strike  thou with thy sword |  |  |  |  | with my sword; I *nsubj* | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with sword=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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