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title: Fierce was the encounter between them, and many and sore were the bl… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: Fierce was the encounter between them, and many and sore were the blows they dealt the one to the other. Who acts: Fierce, many blows. A sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How Charlemagne Sought Vengeance, with its dependency tree and the pragm
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Charlemagne Sought Vengeance, sentence 188

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Fierce was the encounter between them, and many and sore were the blows they dealt the one to the other.

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**Who acts:** Fierce, many blows · **What happens:** be, deal · **To what, where:** encounter, many blows, one, other

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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 (Fierce, many blows), 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:pg75339:36:188
# text = Fierce was the encounter between them, and many and sore were the blows they dealt the one to the other.
1	Fierce	Fierce	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	encounter	encounter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	between	between	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
9	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	sore	sore	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	conj	_	_
12	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	blows	blow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nsubj	_	_
15	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	dealt	deal	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
19	to	to	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | Fierce | the encounter |  |  |  | between son | tree rules |
| 2 | **is a** | past |  | the many blows |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **deal** | past | the many blows | the one | the other |  |  | son *nsubj* | vn give-13.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent one=Theme to other=Recipient |

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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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