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title: And he called upon his lords to lay hold on Lothair, and they durst… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: 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. A sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, The Slaying of Lothair, with its dependency
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, The Slaying of Lothair, sentence 66

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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.

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**Who acts:** horse, men · **What happens:** call, lay, hold, not disobey, run · **To what, where:** Lothair, horse · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (horse, men), 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:pg75339:3:66
# text = 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.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	called	call	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	lords	lord	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	lay	lay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	advcl	_	_
9	hold	hold	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	xcomp	_	_
10	on	on	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	Lothair	lothair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
14	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
15	durst	durst	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
16	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	17	advmod	_	_
17	disobey	disobey	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
18	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	ran	run	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
22	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	Lothair	Lothair	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	rest	rest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	conj	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
28	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	nmod:desc	_	_
29	Charles	Charles	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	's	's	PART	POS	_	29	case	_	_
31	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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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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