Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, The Slaying of Lothair, sentence 13

And when he shall come into my hands, I will hang him, and slay his son Mawgis, and cause that discourteous woman, his wife, to be burnt with fire."

Who acts: Duke, I · What happens: come, hang, slay, cause, burnt · To what, where: hands, Duke, son, discourteous woman

This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, The Slaying of Lothair. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Duke, 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	5 come	cc
2	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	5 come	advmod
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 come	nsubj
4	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 come	aux
5	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	into	into	ADP	_	8 hands	case
7	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 hands	nmod:poss
8	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 come	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 hang	punct
10	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 hang	nsubj
11	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 hang	aux
12	hang	hang	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 come	conj
13	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 hang	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 slay	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 slay	cc
16	slay	slay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 hang	conj
17	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 son	nmod:poss
18	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 slay	obj
19	Mawgis	Mawgis	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 son	appos
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 cause	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 cause	cc
22	cause	cause	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 hang	advcl
23	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	25 woman	det
24	discourteous	discourteous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 woman	amod
25	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 cause	obj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 wife	punct
27	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 wife	nmod:poss
28	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 woman	conj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 burnt	punct
30	to	to	PART	_	32 burnt	mark
31	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	32 burnt	aux:pass
32	burnt	burnt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	22 cause	parataxis
33	with	with	ADP	_	34 fire	case
34	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 burnt	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 come	punct
36	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 come	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	come	shall	Duke		my hands		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into hand=Initial_Location
2	hang	future	I	Duke			vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient
3	slay	infinitive	I not said here	Duke's son			vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent son=Patient
4	cause	infinitive	I not said here	that discourteous woman and Duke's wife			vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition woman=Patient
5	burnt	to-infinitive · passive				with fire	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, The Slaying of Lothair, sentence 13

The tree

Pragmatics

Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, The Slaying of Lothair, sentence 13