Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, The Coming of Roland, sentence 50
Maybe 'tis Latin, but thou art more like to a fool than to a bishop."
This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, The Coming of Roland. 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 | Maybe | maybe | ADV | _ | 8 art | advmod |
| 2 | ' | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 art | punct |
| 3 | tis | tis | ADP | _ | 4 Latin | case |
| 4 | Latin | Latin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 art | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 art | punct |
| 6 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 8 art | cc |
| 7 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 8 art | nsubj |
| 8 | art | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 8 art | advmod |
| 10 | like | like | ADP | _ | 13 fool | case |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 fool | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 fool | det |
| 13 | fool | fool | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 more | obl |
| 14 | than | than | ADP | _ | 17 bishop | case |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 bishop | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 bishop | det |
| 17 | bishop | bishop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 fool | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 art | punct |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 art | punct |
Pragmatics
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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