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title: For see how my spear is broken and my shield cleft in twain, my haub… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: For see how my spear is broken and my shield cleft in twain, my hauberk is in pieces, and my body sorely wounded. Who acts: hauberk, body. A sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How Archbishop Turpin Died, with its dependency tree and the pragmat
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Archbishop Turpin Died, sentence 7

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For see how my spear is broken and my shield cleft in twain, my hauberk is in pieces, and my body sorely wounded.

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**Who acts:** hauberk, body · **What happens:** break, be, wound · **To what, where:** see, pieces

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This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How Archbishop Turpin Died. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hauberk, body), 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:pg75339:34:7
# text = For see how my spear is broken and my shield cleft in twain, my hauberk is in pieces, and my body sorely wounded.
1	For	for	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
2	see	see	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	7	advmod	_	_
4	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	spear	spear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj:pass	_	_
6	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux:pass	_	_
7	broken	break	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	25	advcl	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
9	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
10	shield	shield	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	cleft	cleft	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	twain	twain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
15	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	hauberk	hauberk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
17	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	pieces	piece	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
22	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
24	sorely	sorely	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
25	wounded	wound	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	25	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **break** | present · passive |  | see |  |  |  | my spear *nsubj:pass*; my shield cleft in twain *conj* | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 2 | **is** | present | my hauberk |  |  | pieces |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **wound** | past | my body |  |  |  |  | sorely *property* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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