Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the Punishment of Ganelon, sentence 29
As for fighting, it is sheer folly."
Who acts: silver · What happens: fight, be · To what, where: sheer folly
This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, Of the Punishment 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 (silver), 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 | SCONJ | _ | 3 fighting | mark |
| 2 | for | for | ADP | _ | 1 As | fixed |
| 3 | fighting | fight | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 folly | advcl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 fighting | punct |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 folly | nsubj |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 folly | cop |
| 7 | sheer | sheer | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 folly | amod |
| 8 | folly | folly | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 folly | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 folly | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fight | gerund | silver not said here | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is a | present | silver | sheer folly | 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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