Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Oliver and His Comrades Fared, sentence 75
Tis better for a man to be quiet than to talk so foolishly."
Who acts: man · What happens: be, talk
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 (man), 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 | Tis | tis | ADV | _ | 2 better | advmod |
| 2 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | root | root |
| 3 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 8 quiet | mark |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 man | det |
| 5 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 quiet | nsubj |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 quiet | mark |
| 7 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 8 quiet | cop |
| 8 | quiet | quiet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 better | advcl |
| 9 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 11 talk | mark |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 talk | mark |
| 11 | talk | talk | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 quiet | advcl |
| 12 | so | so | ADV | _ | 13 foolishly | advmod |
| 13 | foolishly | foolishly | ADV | _ | 11 talk | advmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 better | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 better | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | to-infinitive | a man | quiet property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | talk | to-infinitive | a man not said here | foolishly property | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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