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title: Thereupon with one blow he smote off his right hand, and with anothe… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: Thereupon with one blow he smote off his right hand, and with another he shore off the head of the king's son Jurfalew. " Who acts: Curse. A sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How Oliver Was Slain, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Oliver Was Slain, sentence 18

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Thereupon with one blow he smote off his right hand, and with another he shore off the head of the king's son Jurfalew. "

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**Who acts:** Curse · **What happens:** smite off · **To what, where:** right hand

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This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How Oliver Was Slain. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Curse), 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:pg75339:33:18
# text = Thereupon with one blow he smote off his right hand, and with another he shore off the head of the king's son Jurfalew. "
1	Thereupon	thereupon	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
2	with	with	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
4	blow	blow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
5	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	smote	smite	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	off	off	ADP	RP	_	6	compound:prt	_	_
8	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
9	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
13	with	with	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	16	det	_	_
15	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	shore	shore	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
17	off	off	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	's	's	PART	POS	_	22	case	_	_
24	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
25	Jurfalew	Jurfalew	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	25	punct	_	_
27	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **smite off** | past | Curse | Curse's right hand |  |  |  | with one blow; Jurfalew with another shore  Curse off the head of the king's son *parataxis*; thereupon *property* | vn hit-18.1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent hand=Patient with blow=Instrument |

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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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