Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the Treachery of King John, sentence 29
By my faith you were better singing mass in some church than fighting with me."
Who acts: you, church · What happens: sing, be, fight · To what, where: better singing mass, church
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: who acts (you, church), 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 | By | by | ADP | _ | 3 faith | case |
| 2 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 faith | nmod:poss |
| 3 | faith | faith | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 mass | obl |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 mass | nsubj |
| 5 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 mass | cop |
| 6 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 8 mass | amod |
| 7 | singing | sing | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 mass | amod |
| 8 | mass | mass | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 church | case |
| 10 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 11 church | det |
| 11 | church | church | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 mass | nmod |
| 12 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 13 fighting | mark |
| 13 | fighting | fight | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 11 church | acl |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 me | case |
| 15 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 fighting | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 mass | punct |
| 17 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 mass | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sing speech: express | gerund | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | is a | past | you | better singing mass | some church | by my faith | tree rules | ||
| 3 | fight | gerund | some church not said here | with me | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with i=Co-Agent |
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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