Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the Treachery of King John, sentence 88
It were better that I should not meddle with them any more, seeing that they are my kinsmen."
Who acts: I, men · What happens: be, not meddle, see · To what, where: kinsmen
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 (I, men), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 better | expl |
| 2 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 better | cop |
| 3 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 8 meddle | mark |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 meddle | nsubj |
| 6 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 meddle | aux |
| 7 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 meddle | advmod |
| 8 | meddle | meddle | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 better | csubj |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 them | case |
| 10 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 meddle | obl |
| 11 | any | any | ADV | _ | 12 more | advmod |
| 12 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 8 meddle | advmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 seeing | punct |
| 14 | seeing | see | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 meddle | advcl |
| 15 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 19 kinsmen | mark |
| 16 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 kinsmen | nsubj |
| 17 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 kinsmen | cop |
| 18 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 kinsmen | nmod:poss |
| 19 | kinsmen | kinsman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 seeing | advcl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 better | punct |
| 21 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 better | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | good property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | not meddle | should | I | with men = man | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | see | gerund | I not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | is a | present | men = man | my kinsmen | my nmod:poss | tree rules |
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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