Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Peace Was Made, sentence 74

Not so," said he, "they will not dare to hurt the Duke; verily, if they do such a deed I will hang them all with my own hand."

Who acts: King, Peers, I · What happens: say, not dare, not hurt, do, hang · To what, where: Duke, deed, Peers · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (King, Peers, I), 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	Not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	2 so	advmod
2	so	so	ADV	_	5 said	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 so	punct
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 said	nsubj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 dare	punct
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 dare	punct
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 dare	nsubj
10	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 dare	aux
11	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 dare	advmod
12	dare	dare	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 said	ccomp
13	to	to	PART	_	14 hurt	mark
14	hurt	hurt	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 dare	xcomp
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 Duke	det
16	Duke	Duke	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 hurt	obj
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	28 hang	punct
18	verily	verily	ADV	_	28 hang	advmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 verily	punct
20	if	if	SCONJ	_	22 do	mark
21	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 do	nsubj
22	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 hang	advcl
23	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	25 deed	det:predet
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 deed	det
25	deed	deed	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 do	obj
26	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	28 hang	nsubj
27	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 hang	aux
28	hang	hang	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 dare	parataxis
29	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 hang	obj
30	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	29 them	nmod:unmarked
31	with	with	ADP	_	34 hand	case
32	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 hand	nmod:poss
33	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 hand	amod
34	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 hang	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	28 hang	punct
36	"	"	PUNCT	_	28 hang	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert in a quote	past	King			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	not dare	future	Peers = peer			vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	not hurt	to-infinitive	Peers = peer not said here	the Duke		vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer duke=Patient
4	do a condition, not said to happen	present	Peers = peer	such deed		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent deed=Eventuality
5	hang	future	I	Peers = peer	with my own hand; verily property	vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent they=Patient with hand=Instrument

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 Peace Was Made, sentence 74