Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Archbishop Turpin Died, sentence 37

Then four hundred of them, the strongest and most valiant knights that were in the army of the heathen, gathered themselves into one company, and made a yet fiercer assault on Roland.

Who acts: valiant knights · What happens: be, gather, make · To what, where: army, hills, fiercer assault, Roland, four hundred

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 (valiant knights), 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 hundred	advmod
2	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 hundred	compound
3	hundred	hundred	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 them	case
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 hundred	nmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 strongest	punct
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 strongest	det
8	strongest	strong	ADJ	Degree=Sup	3 hundred	acl:relcl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 knights	cc
10	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	11 valiant	advmod
11	valiant	valiant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 knights	amod
12	knights	knight	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 strongest	conj
13	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 army	nsubj
14	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 army	cop
15	in	in	ADP	_	17 army	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 army	det
17	army	army	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 knights	acl:relcl
18	of	of	ADP	_	20 heathen	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 heathen	det
20	heathen	heathen	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 army	nmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 gathered	punct
22	gathered	gather	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 army	parataxis
23	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	22 gathered	obj
24	into	into	ADP	_	26 company	case
25	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	26 company	nummod
26	company	company	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 gathered	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 made	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 made	cc
29	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 gathered	conj
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 assault	det
31	yet	yet	ADV	_	32 fiercer	advmod
32	fiercer	fierce	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	33 assault	amod
33	assault	assault	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 made	obj
34	on	on	ADP	_	35 Roland	case
35	Roland	Roland	PROPN	Number=Sing	33 assault	nmod
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 hundred	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	valiant knights		the army	of the heathen	tree rules
2	gather	past		hills = hill		into one company	vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent themselves=Patient into company=Co-Patient
3	make	past		a fiercer assault	Roland		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset assault=Product

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 37