Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How Huon Returned, His Errand Fulfilled, sentence 66
Verily I would sooner be his bond-slave than pay tribute to this evil giant.
Who acts: I, bond slave · What happens: be, pay · To what, where: bond slave, tribute
This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How Huon Returned, His Errand Fulfilled. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, bond slave), 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 | Verily | verily | ADV | _ | 9 slave | advmod |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 slave | nsubj |
| 3 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 slave | aux |
| 4 | sooner | soon | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 9 slave | advmod |
| 5 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 9 slave | cop |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 slave | nmod:poss |
| 7 | bond | bond | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 slave | compound |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 bond | punct |
| 9 | slave | slave | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 10 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 11 pay | mark |
| 11 | pay | pay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 slave | acl |
| 12 | tribute | tribute | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 pay | obj |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 giant | case |
| 14 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 16 giant | det |
| 15 | evil | evil | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 giant | amod |
| 16 | giant | giant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 pay | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 slave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | would | I | Admiral's bond slave | Admiral nmod:poss; soon, verily property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | pay | infinitive | Admiral's bond slave not said here | tribute | to this evil giant | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tribute=Asset |
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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