Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, The Slaying of Lothair, sentence 25
It is not well for a man, how great soever he be, to fight against his sovereign lord.
Who acts: messenger, Duke · What happens: not be, be
This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, The Slaying of Lothair. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (messenger, Duke), 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 | 7 man | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 man | cop |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 man | advmod |
| 4 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 7 man | advmod |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 man | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 man | det |
| 7 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 great | punct |
| 9 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 10 great | advmod |
| 10 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 man | conj |
| 11 | soever | soever | ADV | _ | 10 great | advmod |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 fight | nsubj |
| 13 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 16 fight | cop |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 fight | punct |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 fight | mark |
| 16 | fight | fight | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 great | conj |
| 17 | against | against | ADP | _ | 20 lord | case |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 lord | nmod:poss |
| 19 | sovereign | sovereign | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 lord | compound |
| 20 | lord | lord | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 fight | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 man | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | present | messenger | for a man; well property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | messenger not said here | soever property | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | is | to-infinitive | Duke | against Duke's sovereign lord; fight property | 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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