Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the Doings of the French Knights, sentence 41
Verily I had rather died the most villainous death than have had him for my husband."
Who acts: I · What happens: have, die · To what, where: villainous death, Lucifer
This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, Of the Doings of the French Knights. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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 | Verily | verily | ADV | _ | 3 had | advmod |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 had | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | rather | rather | ADV | _ | 5 died | advmod |
| 5 | died | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 had | ccomp |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 death | det |
| 7 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 8 villainous | advmod |
| 8 | villainous | villainous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 death | amod |
| 9 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 died | obj |
| 10 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 12 had | mark |
| 11 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 had | aux |
| 12 | had | have | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 died | advcl |
| 13 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 had | obj |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 husband | case |
| 15 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 husband | nmod:poss |
| 16 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 had | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 had | punct |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | I | verily property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | die | past | I not said here | the villainous death | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | have | present · perfect | I not said here | Lucifer | for my husband | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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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