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title: First Amaury smote Huon on the helmet so strongly that he well-nigh… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: First Amaury smote Huon on the helmet so strongly that he well-nigh stunned him. Who acts: Amaury, horse. A sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How King Charles Sent Huon on an Errand, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How King Charles Sent Huon on an Errand, sentence 94

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First Amaury smote Huon on the helmet so strongly that he well-nigh stunned him.

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**Who acts:** Amaury, horse · **What happens:** smite, stun · **To what, where:** Huon, brother

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This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How King Charles Sent Huon on an Errand. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Amaury, horse), 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:pg75339:38:94
# text = First Amaury smote Huon on the helmet so strongly that he well-nigh stunned him.
1	First	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	3	advmod	_	_
2	Amaury	Amaury	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	smote	smite	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	Huon	Huon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
5	on	on	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	helmet	helmet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
8	so	so	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	strongly	strongly	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
10	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
11	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
12	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	15	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	nigh	nigh	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	stunned	stun	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	advcl	_	_
16	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **smite** | past | Amaury | Huon |  |  |  | on the helmet; first, strongly *property* | vn hit-18.1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent huon=Instrument on helmet=Patient |
| 2 | **stun** | past | horse | brother |  |  |  | nigh, well *property* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus he=Experiencer |

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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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