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title: From prime to noon the battle was so equal that no man could say whe… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: From prime to noon the battle was so equal that no man could say whether this side or that prevailed. Who acts: battle, man, side. A sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How Peace Was Made, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every cla
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Peace Was Made, sentence 43

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From prime to noon the battle was so equal that no man could say whether this side or that prevailed.

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**Who acts:** battle, man, side · **What happens:** be, say, prevail · **To what, where:** prime, side · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How Peace Was Made. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (battle, man, side), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg75339:12:43
# text = From prime to noon the battle was so equal that no man could say whether this side or that prevailed.
1	From	from	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	prime	prime	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
3	to	to	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	noon	noon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	battle	battle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
7	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
8	so	so	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	equal	equal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
10	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
11	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	12	det	_	_
12	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
13	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	advcl	_	_
15	whether	whether	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
16	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	17	det	_	_
17	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
18	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
19	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	20	nsubj	_	_
20	prevailed	prevail	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the battle |  |  | prime to noon |  | equal *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | could | no man | this side |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent side=Topic |
| 3 | **prevail** | past | this side |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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.

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**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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