Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Huon, Having Slain a Giant, Came to Babylon, sentence 17
Yet it were better to die than to remain in this bondage."
What happens: be, die, remain · To what, where: bondage
This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How Huon, Having Slain a Giant, Came to Babylon. 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 | Yet | yet | CCONJ | _ | 4 better | cc |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 better | expl |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 better | cop |
| 4 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 die | mark |
| 6 | die | die | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 better | csubj |
| 7 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 9 remain | mark |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 remain | mark |
| 9 | remain | remain | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 die | ccomp |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 bondage | case |
| 11 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 12 bondage | det |
| 12 | bondage | bondage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 remain | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 better | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 better | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | good property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | die | to-infinitive | vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | remain | to-infinitive | this bondage | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in bondage=Location |
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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