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title: It would be shame to us were he to die like a starving wolf that has… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: It would be shame to us were he to die like a starving wolf that has fallen into a pit." Who acts: shame, starving wolf. A sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, Of What Befell At Montalban, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clau
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of What Befell At Montalban, sentence 120

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It would be shame to us were he to die like a starving wolf that has fallen into a pit."

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**Who acts:** shame, starving wolf · **What happens:** be, die, starve, fall · **To what, where:** shame, us, pit

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This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, Of What Befell At Montalban. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (shame, starving wolf), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg75339:11:120
# text = It would be shame to us were he to die like a starving wolf that has fallen into a pit."
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	expl	_	_
2	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	cop	_	_
4	shame	shame	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj:outer	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nmod	_	_
7	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
8	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	die	die	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
11	like	like	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	starving	starve	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	14	amod	_	_
14	wolf	wolf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
15	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	17	nsubj	_	_
16	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	fallen	fall	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	14	acl:relcl	_	_
18	into	into	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	pit	pit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | would |  | shame | us |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **die** | past | shame |  |  |  |  | like a starving wolf | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 3 | **starve** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **fall** | present · perfect | a starving wolf |  |  |  |  | into a pit *result* | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into pit=Result |

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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.

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**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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