Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the End of Balan the Admiral, sentence 19
It were better," said he, "to fall honourably in the midst of our enemies than to be done to death in this place."
Who acts: Oliver · What happens: be, say, fall, do · To what, where: midst, place · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, Of the End of Balan the Admiral. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Oliver), 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 | 6 said | ccomp |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 better | punct |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 better | punct |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 said | nsubj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 fall | punct |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 fall | punct |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 fall | mark |
| 11 | fall | fall | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 said | ccomp |
| 12 | honourably | honourably | ADV | _ | 11 fall | advmod |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 midst | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 midst | det |
| 15 | midst | midst | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 fall | obl |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 enemies | case |
| 17 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 enemies | nmod:poss |
| 18 | enemies | enemy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 midst | nmod |
| 19 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 22 done | mark |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 done | mark |
| 21 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 22 done | aux:pass |
| 22 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 fall | advcl |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 death | case |
| 24 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 done | obl |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 place | case |
| 26 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 27 place | det |
| 27 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 done | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 fall | punct |
| 29 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 fall | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | good property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | Oliver | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | fall | to-infinitive | the midst of our enemies | honourably property | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in midst=Location | ||||
| 4 | do | to-infinitive · passive | this place | to death | vn act-114-1 «NP V» |
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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