Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, The Slaying of Lothair, sentence 47

Open it," said the Duke, "we can hold our own, yea though the King himself should come with all his men."

Who acts: Duke, we, King · What happens: open, say, hold, come · To what, where: gate, own · Speech: someone speaks here

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, we, King), 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	Open	open	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	5 said	parataxis
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Open	obj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Open	punct
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	1 Open	punct
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Duke	det
7	Duke	Duke	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 said	nsubj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 hold	punct
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 hold	punct
10	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 hold	nsubj
11	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 hold	aux
12	hold	hold	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 said	ccomp
13	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 own	nmod:poss
14	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 hold	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 come	punct
16	yea	yea	INTJ	_	22 come	discourse
17	though	though	SCONJ	_	22 come	mark
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 King	det
19	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 come	nsubj
20	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	19 King	nmod
21	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 come	aux
22	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 hold	conj
23	with	with	ADP	_	26 men	case
24	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	26 men	det:predet
25	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 men	nmod:poss
26	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 come	obl
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 hold	punct
28	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 hold	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	open	infinitive		gate		vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=Theme
2	say speech: assert in a quote	past	the Duke			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	hold	can	we	our own		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent own=Theme
4	come	should	the King Duke		with Duke's men	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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 47

The tree

Pragmatics

Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, The Slaying of Lothair, sentence 47