Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, The Slaying of Lothair, sentence 66

And he called upon his lords to lay hold on Lothair, and they durst not disobey him, but ran upon Lothair and the rest of King Charles's men.

Who acts: horse, men · What happens: call, lay, hold, not disobey, run · To what, where: Lothair, horse · 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 (horse, men), 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	_	3 called	cc
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 called	nsubj
3	called	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	upon	upon	ADP	_	6 lords	case
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 lords	nmod:poss
6	lords	lord	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 called	obl
7	to	to	PART	_	8 lay	mark
8	lay	lay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 called	advcl
9	hold	hold	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 lay	xcomp
10	on	on	ADP	_	11 Lothair	case
11	Lothair	lothair	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 hold	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 disobey	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 disobey	cc
14	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 disobey	nsubj
15	durst	durst	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 disobey	aux
16	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	17 disobey	advmod
17	disobey	disobey	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 called	conj
18	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 disobey	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 ran	punct
20	but	but	CCONJ	_	21 ran	cc
21	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 called	conj
22	upon	upon	ADP	_	23 Lothair	case
23	Lothair	Lothair	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 ran	obl
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 rest	cc
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 rest	det
26	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 Lothair	conj
27	of	of	ADP	_	31 men	case
28	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 Charles	nmod:desc
29	Charles	Charles	PROPN	Number=Sing	31 men	nmod:poss
30	's	's	PART	_	29 Charles	case
31	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 rest	nmod
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 called	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	call	past	horse			upon horse's lords	vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	lay	to-infinitive	horse not said here				tree rules
3	hold	infinitive	horse not said here		Lothair		vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on lothair=Location
4	not disobey	present	men = man	horse			tree rules
5	run	past	horse not said here		Lothair and the rest of Charles King's men		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon lothair=Trajectory

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 66

The tree

Pragmatics

Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, The Slaying of Lothair, sentence 66