Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, The Slaying of Lothair, sentence 72

Rather I will come with forty thousand men, and waste your land, and burn your fair city of Paris."

Who acts: I · What happens: come, waste, burn · To what, where: land, fair city

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	Rather	rather	CCONJ	_	4 come	cc
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 come	nsubj
3	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 come	aux
4	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	with	with	ADP	_	8 men	case
6	forty	forty	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 thousand	compound
7	thousand	thousand	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 men	nummod
8	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 come	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 waste	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 waste	cc
11	waste	waste	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	4 come	parataxis
12	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 land	nmod:poss
13	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 waste	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 burn	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 burn	cc
16	burn	burn	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	11 waste	parataxis
17	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 city	nmod:poss
18	fair	fair	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 city	amod
19	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 burn	obj
20	of	of	ADP	_	21 Paris	case
21	Paris	Paris	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 city	nmod
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 come	punct
23	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 come	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	come	future	I		with thousand men	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	waste	infinitive		your land		vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent land=Patient
3	burn	infinitive		your fair city of Paris		vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent city=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 72

The tree

Pragmatics

Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, The Slaying of Lothair, sentence 72