Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the Treachery of King John, sentence 120
I would rather be slain than endure such reproaches."
What happens: slay, endure · To what, where: I, such reproaches
This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, Of the Treachery of King John. 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 slain | nsubj |
| 2 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 slain | aux |
| 3 | rather | rather | ADV | _ | 5 slain | advmod |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 slain | aux:pass |
| 5 | slain | slay | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 7 endure | mark |
| 7 | endure | endure | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 slain | xcomp |
| 8 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 reproaches | amod |
| 9 | reproaches | reproach | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 endure | obj |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 slain | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 slain | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | slay | would · passive | I | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | endure | infinitive | such reproaches | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme reproach=Circumstance |
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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