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description: First Pinabel struck a mighty blow, and wounded Thierry on the right cheek, coming near to slay him outright. Who acts: Pinabel. A sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, Of the Punishment of Ganelon, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of e
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the Punishment of Ganelon, sentence 71

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First Pinabel struck a mighty blow, and wounded Thierry on the right cheek, coming near to slay him outright.

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**Who acts:** Pinabel · **What happens:** strike, wound, come, slay · **To what, where:** mighty blow, Thierry, right cheek, Pinabel

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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 (Pinabel), 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:pg75339:37:71
# text = First Pinabel struck a mighty blow, and wounded Thierry on the right cheek, coming near to slay him outright.
1	First	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	3	advmod	_	_
2	Pinabel	Pinabel	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	struck	strike	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	mighty	mighty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	blow	blow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	wounded	wound	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
10	Thierry	Thierry	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
11	on	on	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	cheek	cheek	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	coming	come	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	advcl	_	_
17	near	near	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
19	slay	slay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	advcl	_	_
20	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	obj	_	_
21	outright	outright	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **strike** | past | Pinabel | a mighty blow |  |  |  | first *property* | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent blow=Patient |
| 2 | **wound** | past | Pinabel *not said here* | Thierry |  | the right cheek |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus thierry=Experiencer |
| 3 | **come** | gerund | Pinabel *not said here* |  |  |  |  | near *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **slay** | to-infinitive | Pinabel *not said here* | Pinabel |  |  |  | outright *property* | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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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