Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Peace Was Made, sentence 43

From prime to noon the battle was so equal that no man could say whether this side or that prevailed.

Who acts: battle, man, side · What happens: be, say, prevail · To what, where: prime, side · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How Peace Was Made. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (battle, man, side), 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	From	from	ADP	_	2 prime	case
2	prime	prime	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 equal	obl
3	to	to	ADP	_	4 noon	case
4	noon	noon	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 prime	nmod
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 battle	det
6	battle	battle	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 equal	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 equal	cop
8	so	so	ADV	_	9 equal	advmod
9	equal	equal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
10	that	that	SCONJ	_	14 say	mark
11	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	12 man	det
12	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 say	nsubj
13	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 say	aux
14	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 equal	advcl
15	whether	whether	SCONJ	_	17 side	mark
16	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	17 side	det
17	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 say	obj
18	or	or	CCONJ	_	20 prevailed	cc
19	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	20 prevailed	nsubj
20	prevailed	prevail	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 side	acl:relcl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 equal	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	the battle		prime to noon	equal property	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	could	no man	this side			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent side=Topic
3	prevail	past	this side				vn exist-47.1 «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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🌲 Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Peace Was Made, sentence 43

The tree

Pragmatics

Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Peace Was Made, sentence 43