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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Charlemagne Sought Vengeance, sentence 178

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Mighty warriors they were, and fierce was the charge they made; so fierce that they brake the army of France in twain.

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**Who acts:** Mighty warriors, warriors · **What happens:** be, make, break · **To what, where:** charge, army, twain

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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 warriors, warriors), 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:pg75339:36:178
# text = Mighty warriors they were, and fierce was the charge they made; so fierce that they brake the army of France in twain.
1	Mighty	mighty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	warriors	warrior	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
3	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
4	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	fierce	fierce	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
8	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	charge	charge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
11	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	so	so	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	fierce	fierce	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	conj	_	_
16	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
17	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	brake	break	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	advcl	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	army	army	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	France	France	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	_
23	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	twain	twain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | Mighty warriors |  |  |  |  | warriors *= warrior* *nsubj*; fierce *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **make** | past | warriors *= warrior* | the charge *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset charge=Product |
| 3 | **be** |  | Mighty warriors *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **break** | present | warriors *= warrior* | the army of France |  | twain |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer army=Patient |

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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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