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title: And as he spake he dealt King Charles a mighty blow upon the helmet. — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: And as he spake he dealt King Charles a mighty blow upon the helmet. Who acts: Emir. 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 pragmatics of every clause.
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Charlemagne Sought Vengeance, sentence 197

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And as he spake he dealt King Charles a mighty blow upon the helmet.

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**Who acts:** Emir · **What happens:** deal · **To what, where:** mighty blow, Charles

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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 (Emir), 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:pg75339:36:197
# text = And as he spake he dealt King Charles a mighty blow upon the helmet.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
2	as	as	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	spake	speak	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
5	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	dealt	deal	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod:desc	_	_
8	Charles	Charles	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	mighty	mighty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	blow	blow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
12	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	helmet	helmet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **deal** | past | Emir | a mighty blow | Charles  King |  |  | as spake  Emir | vn give-13.1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent charles=Recipient blow=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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