Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, More Deeds of Mawgis, sentence 82
Lay hold of them and bring them hither to me."
Who acts: Lay hold · What happens: bring · To what, where: knights, me
This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, More Deeds of Mawgis. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Lay hold), 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 | Lay | lay | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 hold | amod |
| 2 | hold | hold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 bring | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 them | case |
| 4 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 bring | obl |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 bring | cc |
| 6 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 bring | obj |
| 8 | hither | hither | ADV | _ | 6 bring | advmod |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 me | case |
| 10 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 bring | obl |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 bring | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 bring | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring | infinitive | Lay hold | knights = knight | me | of knights = knight; hither property | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme of they=Initial_Location to i=Destination |
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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