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title: Tis better far to die in battle. — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: Tis better far to die in battle. A sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, The Battle, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, The Battle, sentence 86

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Tis better far to die in battle.

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**What happens:** die

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This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, The Battle. 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.

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

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg75339:31:86
# text = Tis better far to die in battle.
1	Tis	tis	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	better	good	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	0	root	_	_
3	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	5	advmod	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	die	die	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	csubj	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	battle	battle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **die** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | in battle; far *property* | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in battle=Attribute |

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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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