Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains, Legends and Tales., part 13, sentence 98
You must be joking with poor Levi, for you must know I could not command a sufficient sum to buy so costly a jewel."
Who acts: You, I · What happens: joke, know, not command, buy · To what, where: sufficient sum, costly jewel · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Legends and Tales., part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, I), 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 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 joking | nsubj |
| 2 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 joking | aux |
| 3 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 4 joking | aux |
| 4 | joking | joke | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 Levi | case |
| 6 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 Levi | amod |
| 7 | Levi | Levi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 joking | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 know | punct |
| 9 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 12 know | mark |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 know | nsubj |
| 11 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 know | aux |
| 12 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 joking | parataxis |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 command | nsubj |
| 14 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 command | aux |
| 15 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 16 command | advmod |
| 16 | command | command | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 know | ccomp |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 sum | det |
| 18 | sufficient | sufficient | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 sum | amod |
| 19 | sum | sum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 command | obj |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 buy | mark |
| 21 | buy | buy | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 sum | acl |
| 22 | so | so | ADV | _ | 23 costly | advmod |
| 23 | costly | costly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 jewel | amod |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 jewel | det |
| 25 | jewel | jewel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 buy | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 know | punct |
| 27 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 joking | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | joke speech: other | must · progressive | You | with poor Levi | vn chit_chat-37.6 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with levi=Co-Agent | ||||
| 2 | know | must | you | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | not command | could | I | a sufficient sum | vn supervision-95.2.2-1 «NP V NP.predicate»: agent=Agent sum=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | buy | to-infinitive | I not said here | a costly jewel | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent jewel=Theme |
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: «Legends and tales of the Harz Mountains» by Toofie Lauder, Project Gutenberg book 74323 (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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