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description: 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. A sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, Of the Craft of Mawgis, with 
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the Craft of Mawgis, sentence 54

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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.

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**Who acts:** battle, two armies · **What happens:** meet, slay, prevail · **To what, where:** two armies, battle, many, sides, Roland

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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.

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

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg75339:8:54
# text = 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.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
4	armies	army	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	nsubj	_	_
5	met	meet	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	acl	_	_
6	together	together	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	battle	battle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
11	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	nsubj:pass	_	_
12	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux:pass	_	_
13	slain	slay	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	acl:relcl	_	_
14	on	on	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	16	det	_	_
16	sides	side	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
18	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
22	Reynaud	Reynaud	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
24	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	conj	_	_
26	prevailed	prevail	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
27	over	over	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	Roland	Roland	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
30	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	31	nmod:poss	_	_
31	army	army	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	26	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | 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 |

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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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