Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How the Heathen and the French Prepared For Battle, sentence 10
We shall have such a battle with them as has never before been fought.
Who acts: We · What happens: have, not fight · To what, where: battle
This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How the Heathen and the French Prepared For Battle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (We), 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 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 have | nsubj |
| 2 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 have | aux |
| 3 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 6 battle | det:predet |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 battle | det |
| 6 | battle | battle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 have | obj |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 them | case |
| 8 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 battle | nmod |
| 9 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 10 has | mark |
| 10 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 have | advcl |
| 11 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 14 fought | advmod |
| 12 | before | before | ADV | _ | 14 fought | advmod |
| 13 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 14 fought | aux:pass |
| 14 | fought | fight | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 has | xcomp |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | shall | We | such battle | with men = man | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent battle=Patient | |||
| 2 | have | present | We not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | not fight | participle · passive | We not said here | before property | 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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