Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Mawgis Became a Hermit, sentence 26
First they fought with swords, but neither one could get the better of the other.
Who acts: horses, one · What happens: fight, get
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 (horses, one), 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 | First | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 3 fought | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 fought | nsubj |
| 3 | fought | fight | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 5 swords | case |
| 5 | swords | sword | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 fought | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 get | punct |
| 7 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 get | cc |
| 8 | neither | neither | DET | PronType=Neg | 9 one | det |
| 9 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 get | nsubj |
| 10 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 get | aux |
| 11 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 fought | conj |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 better | det |
| 13 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 11 get | xcomp |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 other | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 other | det |
| 16 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 better | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 fought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fight | past | horses = horse | with swords; first property | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with sword=Co-Agent | ||||
| 2 | get | could | neither one | good property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
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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