---
title: One battle we have fought against him and not prevailed; now will we… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: One battle we have fought against him and not prevailed; now will we fight another; if need be, and you will follow me, we will fight even a third. Who acts: we, need, you. A sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, The Battle, with its dependency tr
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg75339/31/92/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg75339/) / [The Battle](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg75339/31/) / 92

# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, The Battle, sentence 92

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
One battle we have fought against him and not prevailed; now will we fight another; if need be, and you will follow me, we will fight even a third.

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** we, need, you · **What happens:** fight, not prevail, be, follow · **To what, where:** One battle, another, me, third

<!-- .vabout -->
This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, The Battle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (we, need, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

<!-- .note-en -->
**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg75339:31:92
# text = One battle we have fought against him and not prevailed; now will we fight another; if need be, and you will follow me, we will fight even a third.
1	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	battle	battle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
4	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	fought	fight	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	against	against	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obl	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	10	advmod	_	_
10	prevailed	prevail	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	15	advmod	_	_
13	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
14	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	fight	fight	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
16	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
19	need	need	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
20	be	be	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
23	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
24	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
25	follow	follow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
26	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	25	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
28	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
29	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	30	aux	_	_
30	fight	fight	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	conj	_	_
31	even	even	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	_
32	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	third	third	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fight** | present · perfect · passive |  | One battle |  |  |  | against Roland; we *nsubj* | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Co-Agent |
| 2 | **not** **prevail** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **fight** | future | we | another |  |  | now |  | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent another=Co-Agent |
| 4 | **be** *a condition, not said to happen* | infinitive | need |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **follow** | future | you | me |  |  |  |  | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme |
| 6 | **fight** | future | we | a third |  |  |  |  | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent third=Co-Agent |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- div src -->

**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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [sentence 91](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg75339/31/91/)
- next →: [sentence 93](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg75339/31/93/)
- ↑ back to [The Battle](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg75339/31/)