Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Archbishop Turpin Died, sentence 14

A sore battle we had with the Saracens yonder on the hills; they had the men of Canaan there and the men of Armenia and the Giants; there were no better men in their army than these.

Who acts: sore battle, Saracens, better men · What happens: have, be · To what, where: men

This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How Archbishop Turpin Died. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sore battle, Saracens, better men), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 battle	det
2	sore	sore	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 battle	amod
3	battle	battle	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 had	nsubj
4	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 had	nsubj
5	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	with	with	ADP	_	12 hills	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Saracens	det
8	Saracens	Saracen	PROPN	Number=Plur	12 hills	nsubj
9	yonder	yonder	ADV	_	12 hills	advmod
10	on	on	ADP	_	12 hills	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 hills	det
12	hills	hill	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 had	obl
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 had	punct
14	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 had	nsubj
15	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 had	parataxis
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 men	det
17	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 had	obj
18	of	of	ADP	_	19 Canaan	case
19	Canaan	Canaan	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 men	nmod
20	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	15 had	advmod
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 men	cc
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 men	det
23	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 had	conj
24	of	of	ADP	_	25 Armenia	case
25	Armenia	Armenia	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 men	nmod
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 Giants	cc
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 Giants	det
28	Giants	Giant	PROPN	Number=Plur	25 Armenia	conj
29	;	;	PUNCT	_	31 were	punct
30	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	31 were	expl
31	were	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 had	conj
32	no	no	ADV	_	34 men	advmod
33	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	34 men	amod
34	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 were	nsubj
35	in	in	ADP	_	37 army	case
36	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	37 army	nmod:poss
37	army	army	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 men	nmod
38	than	than	ADP	_	39 these	case
39	these	this	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	37 army	nmod
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	have	past	a sore battle			with the hills the Saracens; we nsubj	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	have	past	Saracens = saracen	the men of Canaan	there		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Patient
3	be	past	better men in men's army than these		there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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🌲 Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Archbishop Turpin Died, sentence 14

The tree

Pragmatics

Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Archbishop Turpin Died, sentence 14