Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, The Slaying of Lothair, sentence 28

Have I not three brothers, princes all of them, that will help me against the King, and four nephews also, sons of Aymon, that are stout and valiant men?"

Who acts: I, that, four nephews · What happens: have, not brother, help, be, man · To what, where: me

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 (I, that, four nephews), 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	Have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 brothers	nsubj
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 brothers	advmod
4	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 brothers	nummod
5	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Have	xcomp
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 princes	punct
7	princes	prince	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 brothers	conj
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 princes	appos
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 them	case
10	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 all	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 help	punct
12	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	14 help	nsubj
13	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 help	aux
14	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 brothers	parataxis
15	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 help	obj
16	against	against	ADP	_	18 King	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 King	det
18	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 help	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 men	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 men	cc
21	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	22 nephews	nummod
22	nephews	nephew	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 men	nsubj
23	also	also	ADV	_	25 sons	advmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 also	punct
25	sons	son	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 men	compound
26	of	of	ADP	_	27 Aymon	case
27	Aymon	Aymon	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 sons	nmod
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 stout	punct
29	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	31 stout	nsubj
30	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 stout	cop
31	stout	stout	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 sons	parataxis
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 valiant	cc
33	valiant	valiant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 stout	conj
34	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Have	obj
35	?	?	PUNCT	_	34 men	punct
36	"	"	PUNCT	_	34 men	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	other	roles by
1	have	present				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	not brother		I		princes conj	tree rules
3	help	future	that	me	against the King	vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Beneficiary
4	is	present	that		stout property	tree rules
5	be		that not said here			tree rules
6	man		four nephews			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 28

The tree

Pragmatics

Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, The Slaying of Lothair, sentence 28