Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Oliver Fought With Fierabras, sentence 43
Meanwhile the two champions continued to fight fiercely, more fiercely than befitted prudent or experienced warriors.
What happens: continue, fight, befit · To what, where: two champions, prudent warriors
This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How Oliver Fought With Fierabras. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | Meanwhile | meanwhile | ADV | _ | 13 befitted | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 champions | det |
| 3 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 champions | nummod |
| 4 | champions | champion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Meanwhile | nsubj |
| 5 | continued | continue | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 champions | acl |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 fight | mark |
| 7 | fight | fight | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 continued | xcomp |
| 8 | fiercely | fiercely | ADV | _ | 7 fight | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Meanwhile | punct |
| 10 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 11 fiercely | advmod |
| 11 | fiercely | fiercely | ADV | _ | 13 befitted | advmod |
| 12 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 13 befitted | mark |
| 13 | befitted | befit | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 14 | prudent | prudent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 warriors | amod |
| 15 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 16 experienced | cc |
| 16 | experienced | experienced | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 prudent | conj |
| 17 | warriors | warrior | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 befitted | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 befitted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | continue | participle | the two champions not said here | vn continue-55.3 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | fight | to-infinitive | fiercely property | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | befit | participle | prudent warriors | fiercely, meanwhile property | tree rules |
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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