Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of Richard of Normandy, sentence 131

Let some of us clothe ourselves as merchants, having our armour and arms under our cloaks, and let the rest hide themselves in a wood hard by, and be ready armed for battle.

Who acts: you, us, rest · What happens: let, clothe, have, hide, be · To what, where: some, ourselves, armour, cloaks, wood

This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, Of Richard of Normandy. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, us, rest), 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	Let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	1 Let	obj
3	of	of	SCONJ	_	5 clothe	mark
4	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 clothe	nsubj
5	clothe	clothe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 some	advcl
6	ourselves	ourselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	5 clothe	obj
7	as	as	ADP	_	8 merchants	case
8	merchants	merchant	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 clothe	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 having	punct
10	having	have	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 Let	advcl
11	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 armour	nmod:poss
12	armour	armour	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 having	obj
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 arms	cc
14	arms	arm	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 armour	conj
15	under	under	ADP	_	17 cloaks	case
16	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 cloaks	nmod:poss
17	cloaks	cloak	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 arms	nmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 let	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 let	cc
20	let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Let	conj
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 rest	det
22	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 hide	nsubj
23	hide	hide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 let	ccomp
24	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	23 hide	obj
25	in	in	ADP	_	27 wood	case
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 wood	det
27	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 hide	obl
28	hard	hard	ADV	Degree=Pos	23 hide	advmod
29	by	by	ADP	_	28 hard	fixed
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 armed	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 armed	cc
32	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	33 ready	cop
33	ready	ready	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 armed	amod
34	armed	armed	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Let	parataxis
35	for	for	ADP	_	36 battle	case
36	battle	battle	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 armed	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Let	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	let	imperative	you not said here	some			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent some=Theme
2	clothe	present	us	ourselves		as merchants	vn dress-41.1.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ourselves=Patient
3	have	gerund	you not said here	our armour and arms under our cloaks			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent armour=Patient
4	let	infinitive	you not said here				tree rules
5	hide	present	the rest	cloaks = cloak	a wood	hard property	vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent themselves=Patient in wood=Location
6	is	infinitive				ready property	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, Of Richard of Normandy, sentence 131