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title: A mighty warrior was he, with deep chest and broad shoulders, over w… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: A mighty warrior was he, with deep chest and broad shoulders, over which his hair fell in curls, with fair face and shining eyes; of his courage he had given proofs without number. Who acts: mighty warrior. A sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, 
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Charlemagne Sought Vengeance, sentence 121

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A mighty warrior was he, with deep chest and broad shoulders, over which his hair fell in curls, with fair face and shining eyes; of his courage he had given proofs without number.

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**Who acts:** mighty warrior · **What happens:** be, fall, shine, give · **To what, where:** Emir, curls, eyes, hair

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This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How Charlemagne Sought Vengeance. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mighty warrior), 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:pg75339:36:121
# text = A mighty warrior was he, with deep chest and broad shoulders, over which his hair fell in curls, with fair face and shining eyes; of his courage he had given proofs without number.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	mighty	mighty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	warrior	warrior	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	with	with	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	deep	deep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	chest	chest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	broad	broad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	shoulders	shoulder	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
14	over	over	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	18	obl	_	_
16	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	hair	hair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
18	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	curls	curl	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
22	with	with	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	fair	fair	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	face	face	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	shining	shine	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	24	conj	_	_
27	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	34	punct	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	31	nmod:poss	_	_
31	courage	courage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	_
32	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	34	nsubj:pass	_	_
33	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	34	aux	_	_
34	given	give	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	parataxis	_	_
35	proofs	proof	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	obj	_	_
36	without	without	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
37	number	number	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past |  | Emir |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **fall** | past | a mighty warrior and deep chest and broad shoulders |  |  | curls |  | with fair face; which *obl*; Emir's hair *nsubj* | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme over which=Location |
| 3 | **shine** | gerund | a mighty warrior and deep chest and broad shoulders *not said here* | eyes |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent eye=Theme |
| 4 | **give** | past · perfect · passive |  | hair |  |  |  | of hair's courage; without number; proofs *obj* | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient proof=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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