Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Archbishop Turpin Died, sentence 3

Walter had but that moment come down from the hills where he had been fighting so fiercely with the heathen that all his men were dead; now he cried to Roland for help. "

Who acts: Walter, moment, heathen · What happens: have, come down, fight, be, cry · To what, where: hills, Roland

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 (Walter, moment, heathen), 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	Walter	Walter	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	but	but	CCONJ	_	6 come	cc
4	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 moment	det
5	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 come	nsubj
6	come	come	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 had	conj
7	down	down	ADV	_	6 come	advmod
8	from	from	ADP	_	10 hills	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 hills	det
10	hills	hill	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 come	obl
11	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	15 fighting	advmod
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 fighting	nsubj
13	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 fighting	aux
14	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	15 fighting	aux
15	fighting	fight	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 come	advcl
16	so	so	ADV	_	17 fiercely	advmod
17	fiercely	fiercely	ADV	_	15 fighting	advmod
18	with	with	ADP	_	20 heathen	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 heathen	det
20	heathen	heathen	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 fighting	obl
21	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	26 dead	nsubj
22	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	24 men	det:predet
23	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 men	nmod:poss
24	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 dead	nsubj
25	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 dead	cop
26	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 heathen	acl:relcl
27	;	;	PUNCT	_	30 cried	punct
28	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	30 cried	advmod
29	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 cried	nsubj
30	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 had	conj
31	to	to	ADP	_	32 Roland	case
32	Roland	Roland	PROPN	Number=Sing	30 cried	obl
33	for	for	ADP	_	34 help	case
34	help	help	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 cried	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 had	punct
36	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	Walter					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	come down	infinitive	that moment		the hills		down property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from hill=Initial_Location
3	fight	past · perfect · progressive	Walter				with the heathen; fiercely property	vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with heathen=Co-Agent
4	is	past	the heathen				Walter's men nsubj; dead property	tree rules
5	cry speech: express	past	Walter	Roland		now	for help	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to roland=Recipient

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 3