Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How the Bridge Mantryble Was Won, sentence 45
It were better for him, dotard that he is, to be at Paris than here."
Who acts: King · What happens: be · To what, where: Paris
This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How the Bridge Mantryble Was Won. 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 better | expl |
| 2 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 better | cop |
| 3 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | root | root |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 5 him | case |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 better | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 dotard | punct |
| 7 | dotard | dotard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 better | obl |
| 8 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 10 is | mark |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 is | nsubj |
| 10 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 better | advcl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 Paris | punct |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 Paris | mark |
| 13 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 15 Paris | cop |
| 14 | at | at | ADP | _ | 15 Paris | case |
| 15 | Paris | Paris | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 better | obl |
| 16 | than | than | ADP | _ | 17 here | case |
| 17 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 better | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 better | punct |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 better | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | for King; dotard obl; good property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | be | present | King | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | is | to-infinitive | Paris | tree rules |
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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