Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of What Befell At Montalban, sentence 120

It would be shame to us were he to die like a starving wolf that has fallen into a pit."

Who acts: shame, starving wolf · What happens: be, die, starve, fall · To what, where: shame, us, pit

This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, Of What Befell At Montalban. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (shame, starving wolf), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 shame	expl
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 shame	aux
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 shame	cop
4	shame	shame	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 die	nsubj:outer
5	to	to	ADP	_	6 us	case
6	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 shame	nmod
7	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 die	aux
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 die	nsubj
9	to	to	PART	_	10 die	mark
10	die	die	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
11	like	like	ADP	_	14 wolf	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 wolf	det
13	starving	starve	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	14 wolf	amod
14	wolf	wolf	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 die	obl
15	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 fallen	nsubj
16	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 fallen	aux
17	fallen	fall	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	14 wolf	acl:relcl
18	into	into	ADP	_	20 pit	case
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 pit	det
20	pit	pit	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 fallen	obl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 die	punct
22	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 die	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	is a	would		shame	us		tree rules
2	die	past	shame			like a starving wolf	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
3	starve	gerund					tree rules
4	fall	present · perfect	a starving wolf			into a pit result	vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into pit=Result

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, Of What Befell At Montalban, sentence 120

The tree

Pragmatics

Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of What Befell At Montalban, sentence 120