Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Mawgis Became a Hermit, sentence 19
Long and fierce was the battle between these two, for they both were as hardy knights as lived.
Who acts: battle, hardy knights · What happens: be, live · To what, where: Long battle
This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How Mawgis Became a Hermit. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (battle, hardy knights), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 battle | amod |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 fierce | cc |
| 3 | fierce | fierce | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Long | conj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 battle | cop |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 battle | det |
| 6 | battle | battle | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | between | between | ADP | _ | 9 two | case |
| 8 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 9 two | det |
| 9 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 battle | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 knights | punct |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 17 knights | case |
| 12 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 knights | nsubj |
| 13 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 12 they | appos |
| 14 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 knights | cop |
| 15 | as | as | ADP | _ | 17 knights | case |
| 16 | hardy | hardy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 knights | amod |
| 17 | knights | knight | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 battle | conj |
| 18 | as | as | ADV | _ | 19 lived | advmod |
| 19 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 knights | acl:relcl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 battle | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the Long battle and hardy knights | between this two | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | past | battle | for hardy knights | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | live | past | hardy knights not said here | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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.
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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