Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Peace Was Made, sentence 29
Have done with such counsel," said the King, "I had rather be torn in sunder than make peace with these villains.
Who acts: King · What happens: do, say, tear, make · To what, where: I, sunder, peace · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How Peace Was Made. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King), 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 | Have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 2 done | aux |
| 2 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 8 said | ccomp |
| 3 | with | with | ADP | _ | 5 counsel | case |
| 4 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 counsel | amod |
| 5 | counsel | counsel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 done | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 done | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 King | det |
| 10 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 said | nsubj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 torn | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 torn | punct |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 torn | nsubj |
| 14 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 torn | aux |
| 15 | rather | rather | ADV | _ | 17 torn | advmod |
| 16 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 17 torn | aux:pass |
| 17 | torn | tear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 said | conj |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 sunder | case |
| 19 | sunder | sunder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 torn | obl |
| 20 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 21 make | mark |
| 21 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 torn | advcl |
| 22 | peace | peace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 make | obj |
| 23 | with | with | ADP | _ | 25 villains | case |
| 24 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 25 villains | det |
| 25 | villains | villain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 make | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | infinitive · perfect | with such counsel | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | the King | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | tear | past · passive | I | sunder | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 4 | make | infinitive | peace | with this villains | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset peace=Product |
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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