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title: The spurs of both were broken; the corslets of both were broken thro… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: The spurs of both were broken; the corslets of both were broken through, and the belts of the horses were so torn that the saddles turned in their place. Who acts: saddles. A sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, Of the Punishment of Ganelon, with
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the Punishment of Ganelon, sentence 57

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The spurs of both were broken; the corslets of both were broken through, and the belts of the horses were so torn that the saddles turned in their place.

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**Who acts:** saddles · **What happens:** break, break through, tear, turn · **To what, where:** spurs, corslets, belts, place

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This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, Of the Punishment of Ganelon. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (saddles), 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:pg75339:37:57
# text = The spurs of both were broken; the corslets of both were broken through, and the belts of the horses were so torn that the saddles turned in their place.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	spurs	spur	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	2	nmod	_	_
5	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux:pass	_	_
6	broken	break	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	corslets	corslet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj:pass	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	9	nmod	_	_
12	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux:pass	_	_
13	broken	break	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	parataxis	_	_
14	through	through	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	belts	belt	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	nsubj:pass	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	horses	horse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nmod	_	_
22	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux:pass	_	_
23	so	so	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	torn	tear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	conj	_	_
25	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	28	mark	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	saddles	saddle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	nsubj	_	_
28	turned	turn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	advcl	_	_
29	in	in	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	31	nmod:poss	_	_
31	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **break** | past · passive |  | the spurs of both |  |  |  |  | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 2 | **break through** | past · passive |  | the corslets of both |  |  |  | through *property* | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 3 | **tear** | past · passive |  | the belts of the horses |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 4 | **turn** | past | the saddles |  |  | saddles's place |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme in place=Trajectory |

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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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