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title: Then Ogier, knowing that Bayard was the stronger by far of the two,… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: Then Ogier, knowing that Bayard was the stronger by far of the two, would have smitten him with his sword. Who acts: Ogier, Bayard. 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 the pragmatics 
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the Treachery of King John, sentence 124

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Then Ogier, knowing that Bayard was the stronger by far of the two, would have smitten him with his sword.

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**Who acts:** Ogier, Bayard · **What happens:** know, be, smite · **To what, where:** Bayard, Ogier · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Ogier, Bayard), 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:pg75339:7:124
# text = Then Ogier, knowing that Bayard was the stronger by far of the two, would have smitten him with his sword.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	2	advmod	_	_
2	Ogier	Ogier	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	knowing	know	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	2	acl	_	_
5	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
6	Bayard	Bayard	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
7	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	stronger	strong	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	4	ccomp	_	_
10	by	by	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	9	obl	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
17	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	aux	_	_
18	smitten	smite	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	9	advcl	_	_
19	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	obj	_	_
20	with	with	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	sword	sword	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **know** | gerund | Ogier *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **is** | past | Bayard |  |  |  |  | strong *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **smite** | would · perfect | Bayard *not said here* | Bayard |  |  |  | with Bayard's sword | vn hit-18.1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent he=Patient with sword=Instrument |

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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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