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Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How the Heathen and the French Prepared For Battle, sentence 8

He descended to the plain with all speed, and came to the array of the French, and said, "I have seen more heathen than man ever yet saw together upon the earth.

Who acts: Oliver, I · What happens: descend, come, say, see · To what, where: plain, array, heathen · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Oliver, I), 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

nsubjcasedetoblcasedetoblpunctccparataxiscasedetoblcasedetnmodpunctccconjpunctpunctnsubjauxccompadvmodobjcaseobladvmodadvmodadvcladvmodcasedetoblpunctrootHePRONdescendedVERBtoADPtheDETplainNOUNwithADPallDETspeedNOUN,PUNCTandCCONJcameVERBtoADPtheDETarrayNOUNofADPtheDETFrenchPROPN,PUNCTandCCONJsaidVERB,PUNCT"PUNCTIPRONhaveAUXseenVERBmoreADVheathenNOUNthanADPmanNOUNeverADVyetADVsawVERBtogetherADVuponADPtheDETearthNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1HehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs2 descendednsubj
2descendeddescendVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
3totoADP_5 plaincase
4thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art5 plaindet
5plainplainNOUNNumber=Sing2 descendedobl
6withwithADP_8 speedcase
7allallDETPronType=Tot8 speeddet
8speedspeedNOUNNumber=Sing2 descendedobl
9,,PUNCT_11 camepunct
10andandCCONJ_11 camecc
11camecomeVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin2 descendedparataxis
12totoADP_14 arraycase
13thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art14 arraydet
14arrayarrayNOUNNumber=Sing11 cameobl
15ofofADP_17 Frenchcase
16thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art17 Frenchdet
17FrenchFrenchPROPNNumber=Sing14 arraynmod
18,,PUNCT_20 saidpunct
19andandCCONJ_20 saidcc
20saidsayVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin11 cameconj
21,,PUNCT_25 seenpunct
22""PUNCT_25 seenpunct
23IIPRONCase=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs25 seennsubj
24havehaveAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin25 seenaux
25seenseeVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part20 saidccomp
26moremoreADVDegree=Cmp27 heathenadvmod
27heathenheathenNOUNNumber=Sing25 seenobj
28thanthanADP_29 mancase
29manmanNOUNNumber=Sing25 seenobl
30evereverADVPronType=Ind31 yetadvmod
31yetyetADV_32 sawadvmod
32sawseeVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin25 seenadvcl
33togethertogetherADV_32 sawadvmod
34uponuponADP_36 earthcase
35thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art36 earthdet
36earthearthNOUNNumber=Sing32 sawobl
37..PUNCT_2 descendedpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1descendpastOliverthe plainwith all speedvn meander-47.7-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to plain=Location
2comepastthe array of the Frenchvn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to array=Initial_Location
3say speech: assertpastvn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4see in a quotepresent · perfectIheathenthan manvn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer heathen=Stimulus
5see in a quotepastI not said hereyet; everupon the earth; together propertyvn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: 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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