Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Peace Was Made, sentence 82

When the yeomen saw that he paid no heed to them, they laid hands on him, one on each side, saying, "Rise up, Sir Duke, for you are to be hanged in despite of the King."

Who acts: yeomen, Duke · What happens: see, pay, lay, say, rise up, hange · To what, where: heed, yeomen, hands, Duke, you · 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 (yeomen, Duke), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 saw	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 yeomen	det
3	yeomen	yeoman	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 saw	nsubj
4	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 laid	advcl
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	7 paid	mark
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 paid	nsubj
7	paid	pay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 saw	advcl
8	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	9 heed	det
9	heed	heed	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 paid	obj
10	to	to	ADP	_	11 them	case
11	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 paid	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 saw	punct
13	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 laid	nsubj
14	laid	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 laid	obj
16	on	on	ADP	_	17 him	case
17	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 laid	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 one	punct
19	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	14 laid	obl
20	on	on	ADP	_	22 side	case
21	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	22 side	det
22	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 one	nmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 saying	punct
24	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 laid	advcl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 Rise	punct
26	"	"	PUNCT	_	27 Rise	punct
27	Rise	rise	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 saying	ccomp
28	up	up	ADP	_	27 Rise	compound:prt
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 Duke	punct
30	Sir	Sir	PROPN	Number=Sing	31 Duke	nmod:desc
31	Duke	Duke	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 Rise	obl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 hanged	punct
33	for	for	SCONJ	_	38 hanged	mark
34	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	38 hanged	nsubj:pass
35	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	38 hanged	aux:pass
36	to	to	PART	_	38 hanged	mark
37	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	38 hanged	aux:pass
38	hanged	hange	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	27 Rise	advcl
39	in	in	ADP	_	43 King	case
40	despite	despite	ADP	_	43 King	case
41	of	of	ADP	_	43 King	case
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 King	det
43	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	38 hanged	obl
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	27 Rise	punct
45	"	"	PUNCT	_	27 Rise	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	see	past	the yeomen				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	pay	past	Duke	no heed	yeomen = yeoman		vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heed=Asset
3	lay	past	yeomen = yeoman	hands		on Duke; one on each side obl	vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent hand=Theme on he=Destination
4	say speech: assert	gerund	yeomen = yeoman not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	rise up in a quote	infinitive		Duke Sir			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	hange in a quote	present · passive		you		in the King	tree rules

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 82