Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, The Battle, sentence 92
One battle we have fought against him and not prevailed; now will we fight another; if need be, and you will follow me, we will fight even a third.
Who acts: we, need, you · What happens: fight, not prevail, be, follow · To what, where: One battle, another, me, third
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 (we, need, you), 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 battle | nummod |
| 2 | battle | battle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 fought | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 fought | nsubj |
| 4 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 fought | aux |
| 5 | fought | fight | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | against | against | ADP | _ | 7 him | case |
| 7 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 fought | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 prevailed | cc |
| 9 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 prevailed | advmod |
| 10 | prevailed | prevail | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 fought | conj |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 fight | punct |
| 12 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 15 fight | advmod |
| 13 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 fight | aux |
| 14 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 fight | nsubj |
| 15 | fight | fight | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 fought | conj |
| 16 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 15 fight | obj |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 be | punct |
| 18 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 20 be | mark |
| 19 | need | need | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 be | nsubj |
| 20 | be | be | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 fight | conj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 follow | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 follow | cc |
| 23 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 25 follow | nsubj |
| 24 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 follow | aux |
| 25 | follow | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 fought | conj |
| 26 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 25 follow | obj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 fight | punct |
| 28 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 30 fight | nsubj |
| 29 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 30 fight | aux |
| 30 | fight | fight | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 follow | conj |
| 31 | even | even | ADV | _ | 33 third | advmod |
| 32 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 33 third | det |
| 33 | third | third | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 fight | obj |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 fought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fight | present · perfect · passive | One battle | against Roland; we nsubj | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Co-Agent | ||||
| 2 | not prevail | participle | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | fight | future | we | another | now | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent another=Co-Agent | |||
| 4 | be a condition, not said to happen | infinitive | need | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | follow | future | you | me | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme | ||||
| 6 | fight | future | we | a third | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent third=Co-Agent |
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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