Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Charlemagne Sought Vengeance, sentence 196
These are but idle words," answered the Emir; "I had sooner die."
Who acts: These, idle words, I · What happens: be, answer, have · To what, where: idle words, Emir, die
This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How Charlemagne Sought Vengeance. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (These, idle words, 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 | These | this | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 5 words | nsubj |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 words | cop |
| 3 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 words | cc |
| 4 | idle | idle | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 words | amod |
| 5 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 answered | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 words | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 words | punct |
| 8 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Emir | det |
| 10 | Emir | Emir | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 answered | obj |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 had | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 had | punct |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 had | nsubj |
| 14 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 answered | conj |
| 15 | sooner | soon | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 16 die | advmod |
| 16 | die | die | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 had | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 answered | punct |
| 18 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 answered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | These | idle words | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | answer speech: assert in a quote | past | idle words | the Emir | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent emir=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | have | past | I | die | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent die=Patient |
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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