Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Oliver Was Slain, sentence 12
If man be not brave and a stout fighter, he had better by far be a monk in some cloister where he may pray all day long for our sins."
Who acts: man · What happens: not be, have, be, pray · To what, where: monk, cloister
This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How Oliver Was Slain. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man), 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 5 brave | mark |
| 2 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 brave | nsubj |
| 3 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 brave | cop |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 brave | advmod |
| 5 | brave | brave | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 fighter | cc |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 fighter | det |
| 8 | stout | stout | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 fighter | amod |
| 9 | fighter | fighter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 brave | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 had | punct |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 had | nsubj |
| 12 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 brave | conj |
| 13 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 12 had | xcomp |
| 14 | by | by | ADP | _ | 15 far | case |
| 15 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 18 monk | obl |
| 16 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 18 monk | cop |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 monk | det |
| 18 | monk | monk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 had | obj |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 cloister | case |
| 20 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 21 cloister | det |
| 21 | cloister | cloister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 monk | nmod |
| 22 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 25 pray | advmod |
| 23 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 pray | nsubj |
| 24 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 pray | aux |
| 25 | pray | pray | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 cloister | acl:relcl |
| 26 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 27 day | det |
| 27 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 pray | obl:unmarked |
| 28 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 25 pray | advmod |
| 29 | for | for | ADP | _ | 31 sins | case |
| 30 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 31 sins | nmod:poss |
| 31 | sins | sin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 long | obl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 brave | punct |
| 33 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 brave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | infinitive | man | a stout fighter conj; brave property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | have | past | man | good property | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | is a | infinitive | a monk | some cloister | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | pray | may | man | day | long property | vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot |
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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