Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Archbishop Turpin Died, sentence 22

Three valiant men of war they were; fast and firm they stood one by the other; hundreds there were of the heathen, but they dared not come near to the three valiant champions of France.

Who acts: Three valiant men, men · What happens: stand, come · To what, where: one, three valiant champions

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 (Three valiant men, 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	Three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 men	nummod
2	valiant	valiant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 men	amod
3	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 stood	nsubj
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 war	case
5	war	war	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 men	nmod
6	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 were	nsubj
7	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 war	acl:relcl
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	9 fast	punct
9	fast	fast	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 stood	parataxis
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 firm	cc
11	firm	firm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 fast	conj
12	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 stood	nsubj
13	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 stood	obj
15	by	by	ADP	_	17 other	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 other	det
17	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 stood	obl
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 hundreds	punct
19	hundreds	hundred	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 stood	obl
20	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	21 were	expl
21	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 hundreds	acl:relcl
22	of	of	ADP	_	24 heathen	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 heathen	det
24	heathen	heathen	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 were	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 come	punct
26	but	but	CCONJ	_	30 come	cc
27	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 come	nsubj
28	dared	dare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 come	aux
29	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	28 dared	advmod
30	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 stood	parataxis
31	near	near	ADV	_	30 come	advmod
32	to	to	ADP	_	36 champions	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 champions	det
34	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	36 champions	nummod
35	valiant	valiant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 champions	amod
36	champions	champion	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 come	obl
37	of	of	ADP	_	38 France	case
38	France	France	PROPN	Number=Sing	36 champions	nmod
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 stood	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stand	past	Three valiant men of war	one				by the other; hundreds obl; men = man nsubj	vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent one=Theme by other=Destination
2	come	past	men = man			the three valiant champions of France		near property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to champion=Initial_Location

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 22