Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the Plot Against Roland, sentence 43

Give me twenty thousand only, so they be men of valour, and I will keep the passes in all safety.

Who acts: you, lords, I · What happens: give, be, keep · To what, where: twenty thousand, me, men, passes, safety

This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, Of the Plot Against Roland. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, lords, 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	Give	give	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	1 Give	iobj
3	twenty	twenty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 thousand	compound
4	thousand	thousand	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	1 Give	obj
5	only	only	ADV	_	1 Give	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 men	punct
7	so	so	ADV	_	10 men	advmod
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 men	nsubj
9	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	10 men	cop
10	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Give	obl
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 valour	case
12	valour	valour	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 men	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 keep	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 keep	cc
15	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 keep	nsubj
16	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 keep	aux
17	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Give	conj
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 passes	det
19	passes	pass	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 keep	obj
20	in	in	ADP	_	22 safety	case
21	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	22 safety	det
22	safety	safety	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 keep	obl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Give	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	give	imperative	you not said here	twenty thousand	me			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient thousand=Theme
2	is a	infinitive	lords = lord	men			of valour	tree rules
3	keep	future	I	the passes		all safety		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent pass=Theme in safety=Location

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 the Plot Against Roland, sentence 43

The tree

Pragmatics

Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the Plot Against Roland, sentence 43