Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, The Slaying of Lothair, sentence 67
Then began as sore a battle as was ever fought in this world.
What happens: begin, fight · To what, where: battle, world
This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, The Slaying of Lothair. 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 2 began | advmod |
| 2 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | as | as | ADP | _ | 4 sore | case |
| 4 | sore | sore | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 began | obl |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 battle | det |
| 6 | battle | battle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 began | obj |
| 7 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 10 fought | mark |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 fought | aux:pass |
| 9 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 10 fought | advmod |
| 10 | fought | fight | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 began | advcl |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 world | case |
| 12 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 13 world | det |
| 13 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 fought | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 began | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | begin | past | a battle | then | as sore | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent battle=Eventuality | |||
| 2 | fight | past · passive | this world | ever | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V» |
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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