Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Oliver and His Comrades Fared, sentence 67
Better had we been slain in battle than that we should rot in this place!"
Who acts: we · What happens: slay, rot · To what, where: Better, battle, place
This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How Oliver and His Comrades Fared. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (we), 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 | Better | Better | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 slain | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 slain | aux |
| 3 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 slain | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 slain | aux:pass |
| 5 | slain | slay | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 battle | case |
| 7 | battle | battle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 slain | obl |
| 8 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 12 rot | mark |
| 9 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 12 rot | mark |
| 10 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 rot | nsubj |
| 11 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 rot | aux |
| 12 | rot | rot | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 slain | advcl |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 place | case |
| 14 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 15 place | det |
| 15 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 rot | obl |
| 16 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 5 slain | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 slain | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | slay | past · perfect · passive | Better | battle | we nsubj:pass | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||
| 2 | rot | should | we | this place | vn entity_specific_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
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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