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title: Before they could raise themselves, for both received no small damag… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: Before they could raise themselves, for both received no small damage, the two horses, Bayard and the other, fell to fighting. Who acts: saddles. A sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, Of the Treachery of King John, with its dependency tree and t
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the Treachery of King John, sentence 123

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Before they could raise themselves, for both received no small damage, the two horses, Bayard and the other, fell to fighting.

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**Who acts:** saddles · **What happens:** raise, receive, fall, fight · **To what, where:** saddles, small damage

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This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, Of the Treachery of King John. 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:pg75339:7:123
# text = Before they could raise themselves, for both received no small damage, the two horses, Bayard and the other, fell to fighting.
1	Before	before	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	raise	raise	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	themselves	themselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
8	both	both	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc:preconj	_	_
9	received	receive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
10	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	12	det	_	_
11	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	damage	damage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	16	nummod	_	_
16	horses	horse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	Bayard	Bayard	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	appos	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
23	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
24	to	to	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
25	fighting	fight	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	23	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **raise** | could | saddles *= saddle* | saddles *= saddle* |  |  |  |  | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent themselves=Theme |
| 2 | **receive** | past |  | no small damage |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent damage=Theme |
| 3 | **fall** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **fight** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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