Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How the Heathen and the French Prepared For Battle, sentence 29
Tis better to die than to be disgraced.
What happens: die, disgrace
This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How the Heathen and the French Prepared For Battle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | Tis | tis | ADV | _ | 2 better | advmod |
| 2 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 die | mark |
| 4 | die | die | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 better | csubj |
| 5 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 8 disgraced | mark |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 disgraced | mark |
| 7 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 8 disgraced | aux:pass |
| 8 | disgraced | disgrace | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 die | advcl |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 better | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | die | to-infinitive | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||||
| 2 | disgrace | to-infinitive · passive | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle» |
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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