Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How It Fared With the Brethren, sentence 99
As for myself I had sooner die as becomes a knight than perish here of hunger and cold."
Who acts: myself, knight · What happens: have, die, become, perish · To what, where: knight
This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How It Fared With the Brethren. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (myself, knight), 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 | _ | 5 had | mark |
| 2 | for | for | ADP | _ | 1 As | fixed |
| 3 | myself | myself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 5 had | nsubj |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 had | nsubj |
| 5 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | sooner | soon | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 7 die | advmod |
| 7 | die | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 had | advcl |
| 8 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 9 becomes | mark |
| 9 | becomes | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 die | ccomp |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 knight | det |
| 11 | knight | knight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 becomes | xcomp |
| 12 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 13 perish | mark |
| 13 | perish | perish | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 knight | acl |
| 14 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 13 perish | advmod |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 hunger | case |
| 16 | hunger | hunger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 perish | obl |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 cold | cc |
| 18 | cold | cold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 hunger | conj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 had | punct |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | myself | I nsubj | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | die | present | myself not said here | soon property | vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | ||||
| 3 | become | present | myself not said here | a knight | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 4 | perish | infinitive | a knight not said here | here | of hunger and cold | vn die-42.4-1 «NP V PP.cause»: agent=Patient of hunger=Causer |
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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