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title: As for myself I had sooner die as becomes a knight than perish here… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: As for myself I had sooner die as becomes a knight than perish here of hunger and cold." Who acts: myself, knight. A sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How It Fared With the Brethren, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How It Fared With the Brethren, sentence 99

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As for myself I had sooner die as becomes a knight than perish here of hunger and cold."

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**Who acts:** myself, knight · **What happens:** have, die, become, perish · **To what, where:** knight

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This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How It Fared With the Brethren. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (myself, knight), 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:pg75339:5:99
# text = As for myself I had sooner die as becomes a knight than perish here of hunger and cold."
1	As	as	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
2	for	for	ADP	IN	_	1	fixed	_	_
3	myself	myself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	5	nsubj	_	_
4	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	sooner	soon	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	7	advmod	_	_
7	die	die	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	advcl	_	_
8	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
9	becomes	become	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	ccomp	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	knight	knight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	xcomp	_	_
12	than	than	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
13	perish	perish	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	acl	_	_
14	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	13	advmod	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	hunger	hunger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	cold	cold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | myself |  |  |  |  | I *nsubj* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **die** | present | myself *not said here* |  |  |  |  | soon *property* | vn long-32.2 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 3 | **become** | present | myself *not said here* | a knight |  |  |  |  | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **perish** | infinitive | a knight *not said here* |  |  | here |  | of hunger and cold | vn die-42.4-1 «NP V PP.cause»: agent=Patient of hunger=Causer |

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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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