Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, The Treason of Ganelon, sentence 89
As for myself, I cannot praise him enough; I had rather die than cease to be one of his barons.
Who acts: I · What happens: not praise, die, be · To what, where: One
This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, The Treason of Ganelon. 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 | As | as | ADP | ExtPos=ADP | 3 myself | case |
| 2 | for | for | ADP | _ | 1 As | fixed |
| 3 | myself | myself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 8 praise | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 myself | punct |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 praise | nsubj |
| 6 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 praise | aux |
| 7 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 praise | advmod |
| 8 | praise | praise | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 9 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 praise | obj |
| 10 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 8 praise | advmod |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 die | punct |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 die | nsubj |
| 13 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 die | aux |
| 14 | rather | rather | ADV | _ | 15 die | advmod |
| 15 | die | die | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 praise | conj |
| 16 | than | than | ADP | _ | 17 cease | case |
| 17 | cease | cease | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 die | obl |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 one | mark |
| 19 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 20 one | cop |
| 20 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 die | advcl |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 barons | case |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 barons | nmod:poss |
| 23 | barons | baron | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 one | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 praise | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not praise | can | I | One | as myself; enough property | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent he=Theme as myself=Attribute | |||
| 2 | die | past | I | than cease | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||
| 3 | is a | to-infinitive | I not said here | one | of One's barons | 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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