Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, The Slaying of Lothair, sentence 57

I hold of him neither land nor fortress; or rather I will go and waste his land till I come to Paris itself."

Who acts: I · What happens: hold, go, waste, come · To what, where: land, Paris

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), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 hold	nsubj
2	hold	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 him	case
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 hold	obl
5	neither	neither	DET	PronType=Neg	6 land	det
6	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 hold	obj
7	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	8 fortress	cc
8	fortress	fortress	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 land	conj
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 go	punct
10	or	or	CCONJ	_	14 go	cc
11	rather	rather	ADV	_	14 go	advmod
12	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 go	nsubj
13	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 go	aux
14	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 hold	parataxis
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 waste	cc
16	waste	waste	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 go	conj
17	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 land	nmod:poss
18	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 waste	obj
19	till	till	SCONJ	_	21 come	mark
20	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 come	nsubj
21	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 waste	advcl
22	to	to	ADP	_	23 Paris	case
23	Paris	Paris	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 come	obl
24	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes	23 Paris	nmod
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 hold	punct
26	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 hold	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	hold	present	I	neither land nor fortress		of Duke	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent land=Theme
2	go	future	I				vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	waste	infinitive	I not said here	Duke's land			vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent land=Patient
4	come	present	I		Paris fortress		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to paris=Initial_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, The Slaying of Lothair, sentence 57

The tree

Pragmatics

Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, The Slaying of Lothair, sentence 57