Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, The Battle, sentence 103

So be it," said the men of France, "we are few indeed, but we will not fail of our duty."

Who acts: coward, we · What happens: be, say, not fail · To what, where: coward, men · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, The Battle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (coward, we), 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	So	so	ADV	_	6 said	advmod
2	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	3 it	cop
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 said	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 it	punct
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 it	punct
6	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 men	det
8	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 said	obj
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 France	case
10	France	France	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 men	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 few	punct
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	15 few	punct
13	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 few	nsubj
14	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 few	cop
15	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 said	conj
16	indeed	indeed	ADV	_	15 few	advmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 fail	punct
18	but	but	CCONJ	_	22 fail	cc
19	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 fail	nsubj
20	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 fail	aux
21	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	22 fail	advmod
22	fail	fail	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 said	ccomp
23	of	of	ADP	_	25 duty	case
24	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 duty	nmod:poss
25	duty	duty	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 fail	obl
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	22 fail	punct
27	"	"	PUNCT	_	22 fail	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	infinitive		coward		tree rules
2	say speech: assert in a quote	past	coward	the men of France		tree rules
3	is	present	we		few, indeed property	tree rules
4	not fail	future	we		of our duty	vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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 Battle, sentence 103

The tree

Pragmatics

Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, The Battle, sentence 103