Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Oliver and Others Were Taken Prisoners, sentence 9

And mark this: there lie in wait in that wood yonder 40,000 men--soldiers of mine, whom I set there this very day, bidding them there abide till I should return from the battle."

Who acts: you, I, lie, there · What happens: mark, set, bid, abide, return, lie · To what, where: this, 40,000 men, men, battle, wait

This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How Oliver and Others Were Taken Prisoners. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, I, lie, there), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	2 mark	cc
2	mark	mark	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 mark	obj
4	:	:	PUNCT	_	6 lie	punct
5	there	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Typo=Yes	6 lie	nmod:poss
6	lie	lie	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 abide	nsubj
7	in	in	ADP	_	8 wait	case
8	wait	wait	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 lie	nmod
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 wood	case
10	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	11 wood	det
11	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 lie	nmod
12	yonder	yonder	ADV	_	14 men	advmod
13	40,000	40000	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	14 men	nummod
14	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 abide	nsubj
15	--	--	PUNCT	_	16 soldiers	punct
16	soldiers	soldier	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 men	conj
17	of	of	ADP	_	18 mine	case
18	mine	my	PRON	Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 soldiers	nmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 set	punct
20	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	22 set	obj
21	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 set	nsubj
22	set	set	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 men	acl:relcl
23	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	22 set	advmod
24	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	26 day	det
25	very	very	ADV	_	26 day	advmod
26	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 set	obl:unmarked
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 bidding	punct
28	bidding	bid	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	22 set	advcl
29	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 bidding	obj
30	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	28 bidding	advmod
31	abide	abide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 mark	parataxis
32	till	till	SCONJ	_	35 return	mark
33	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	35 return	nsubj
34	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	35 return	aux
35	return	return	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 abide	ccomp
36	from	from	ADP	_	38 battle	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 battle	det
38	battle	battle	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 return	obl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 mark	punct
40	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 mark	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mark	imperative	you not said here	this				vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent this=Destination
2	set	past	I	40,000 men and soldiers of mine	there	day		vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient whom=Result
3	bid	gerund	I not said here	men = man	there			tree rules
4	abide	present	there's lie in wait in that wood				40,000 men and soldiers of mine nsubj	tree rules
5	return	should	I		the battle			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from battle=Initial_Location
6	lie		there = they		wait			nom lie «communication intransitive»: poss=agent in=place

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 Oliver and Others Were Taken Prisoners, sentence 9

The tree

Pragmatics

Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Oliver and Others Were Taken Prisoners, sentence 9