Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, The Battle, sentence 57
Nevertheless, for all the valour of Roland and his fellows the battle went hardly with the men of France.
Who acts: battle · What happens: go
This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, The Battle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (battle), 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 | Nevertheless | nevertheless | ADV | _ | 14 went | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nevertheless | punct |
| 3 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 valour | case |
| 4 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 6 valour | det:predet |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 valour | det |
| 6 | valour | valour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 went | obl |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 Roland | case |
| 8 | Roland | Roland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 valour | nmod |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 fellows | cc |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 fellows | nmod:poss |
| 11 | fellows | fellow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 Roland | conj |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 battle | det |
| 13 | battle | battle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 went | nsubj |
| 14 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | hardly | hardly | ADV | _ | 14 went | advmod |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 men | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 men | det |
| 18 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 went | obl |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 France | case |
| 20 | France | France | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 men | nmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | the battle | for all valour of Roland and Roland's fellows; with the men of France; hardly, nevertheless property | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for valour=Beneficiary |
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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