Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the Bridge of Mantryble, sentence 26

Now he were better advised to sit still and rest his old body, and pray in his churches, and eat such food as he has.

Who acts: Balan · What happens: advise, sit, rest, pray, eat, have · To what, where: Balan, old body, churches, such food

This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, Of the Bridge of Mantryble. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Balan), 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 advised	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 advised	nsubj:pass
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 advised	aux:pass
4	better	well	ADV	Degree=Cmp	5 advised	advmod
5	advised	advise	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 sit	mark
7	sit	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 advised	xcomp
8	still	still	ADV	_	7 sit	advmod
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 rest	cc
10	rest	rest	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 sit	conj
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 body	nmod:poss
12	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 body	amod
13	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 rest	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 pray	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 pray	cc
16	pray	pray	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 advised	conj
17	in	in	ADP	_	19 churches	case
18	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 churches	nmod:poss
19	churches	church	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 pray	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 eat	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 eat	cc
22	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 pray	conj
23	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 food	amod
24	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 eat	obj
25	as	as	SCONJ	_	27 has	mark
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 has	nsubj
27	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 eat	advcl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 advised	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	advise speech: other	past · passive		Balan		now	well property	vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP how S_INF»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic
2	sit not said to happen	to-infinitive	Balan not said here			still		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	rest	infinitive	Balan not said here	Balan's old body				vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location body=Theme
4	pray	present			Balan's churches			vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot
5	eat	present		such food				vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Patient
6	have	present	Balan					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: 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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg75339/20/26/

🌲 Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the Bridge of Mantryble, sentence 26

The tree

Pragmatics

Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the Bridge of Mantryble, sentence 26