Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the Craft of Mawgis, sentence 54
So the two armies met together in battle, and many were slain on both sides, but in the end Reynaud and his men prevailed over Roland and his army.
Who acts: battle, two armies · What happens: meet, slay, prevail · To what, where: two armies, battle, many, sides, Roland
This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, Of the Craft of Mawgis. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (battle, two armies), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 26 prevailed | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 armies | det |
| 3 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 armies | nummod |
| 4 | armies | army | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 prevailed | nsubj |
| 5 | met | meet | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 armies | acl |
| 6 | together | together | ADV | _ | 5 met | advmod |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 battle | case |
| 8 | battle | battle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 met | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 slain | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 slain | cc |
| 11 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 slain | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 slain | aux:pass |
| 13 | slain | slay | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 battle | acl:relcl |
| 14 | on | on | ADP | _ | 16 sides | case |
| 15 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 16 sides | det |
| 16 | sides | side | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 slain | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 Reynaud | punct |
| 18 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 22 Reynaud | cc |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 end | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 end | det |
| 21 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 Reynaud | obl |
| 22 | Reynaud | Reynaud | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 armies | nmod |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 men | cc |
| 24 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 men | nmod:poss |
| 25 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 Reynaud | conj |
| 26 | prevailed | prevail | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 27 | over | over | ADP | _ | 28 Roland | case |
| 28 | Roland | Roland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 prevailed | obl |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 army | cc |
| 30 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 31 army | nmod:poss |
| 31 | army | army | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 Roland | conj |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 26 prevailed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | meet | participle | the two armies Reynaud in the end and Reynaud's men not said here | battle | together property | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | slay | past · passive | battle not said here | many | both sides | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||
| 3 | prevail | past | the two armies Reynaud in the end and Reynaud's men | Roland and Roland's army | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over roland=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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