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title: I hold of him neither land nor fortress; or rather I will go and was… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: 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. A sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, The Slaying of Lothair, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, The Slaying of Lothair, sentence 57

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

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

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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.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg75339:3:57
# text = I hold of him neither land nor fortress; or rather I will go and waste his land till I come to Paris itself."
1	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	hold	hold	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obl	_	_
5	neither	neither	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	6	det	_	_
6	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
7	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	8	cc	_	_
8	fortress	fortress	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
10	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
11	rather	rather	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
12	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
13	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	parataxis	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	waste	waste	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	conj	_	_
17	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
19	till	till	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
20	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	come	come	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	advcl	_	_
22	to	to	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	Paris	Paris	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
24	itself	itself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Emp|Reflex=Yes	23	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | 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 |

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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.

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**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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