Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the Treachery of King John, sentence 98
We should of a certainty be hanged by the King, and it were better to perish here than to die in so shameful a fashion."
Who acts: King · What happens: hange, be, perish, die · To what, where: We
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 (King), 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 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 hanged | nsubj |
| 2 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 hanged | aux |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 certainty | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 certainty | det |
| 5 | certainty | certainty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 hanged | obl |
| 6 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 hanged | aux:pass |
| 7 | hanged | hange | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | by | by | ADP | _ | 10 King | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 King | det |
| 10 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 hanged | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 better | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 better | cc |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 better | expl |
| 14 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 better | cop |
| 15 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 7 hanged | parataxis |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 perish | mark |
| 17 | perish | perish | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 better | csubj |
| 18 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 17 perish | advmod |
| 19 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 21 die | mark |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 die | mark |
| 21 | die | die | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 perish | xcomp |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 fashion | case |
| 23 | so | so | ADV | _ | 24 shameful | advmod |
| 24 | shameful | shameful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 fashion | amod |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 fashion | det |
| 26 | fashion | fashion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 die | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 hanged | punct |
| 28 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 hanged | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hange | should · passive | the King | We | of a certainty | tree rules | |||
| 2 | is | past | good property | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | perish | to-infinitive | here | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | die | to-infinitive | in a shameful fashion | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in fashion=Attribute |
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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