Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of Reynaud's End, sentence 41
Nay," answered Reynaud, "give me one penny only, that I may have wherewithal to keep me, for I work not for wages, but for the love of my God."
Who acts: I, wherewithal · What happens: answer, give, have, keep, not work, love · To what, where: Reynaud, one penny, me, wherewithal, God · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, Of Reynaud's End. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, wherewithal), 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 | Nay | nay | INTJ | _ | 4 answered | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nay | punct |
| 3 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 answered | punct |
| 4 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | Reynaud | Reynaud | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 answered | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 give | punct |
| 7 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 give | punct |
| 8 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 answered | ccomp |
| 9 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 give | iobj |
| 10 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 penny | nummod |
| 11 | penny | penny | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 give | obj |
| 12 | only | only | ADV | _ | 8 give | advmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 have | punct |
| 14 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 17 have | mark |
| 15 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 have | nsubj |
| 16 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 have | aux |
| 17 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 give | conj |
| 18 | wherewithal | wherewithal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 have | obj |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 keep | mark |
| 20 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 have | xcomp |
| 21 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 keep | obj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 work | punct |
| 23 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 25 work | mark |
| 24 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 25 work | nsubj |
| 25 | work | work | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 keep | advcl |
| 26 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 25 work | advmod |
| 27 | for | for | ADP | _ | 28 wages | case |
| 28 | wages | wage | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 work | obl |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 love | punct |
| 30 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 33 love | cc |
| 31 | for | for | ADP | _ | 33 love | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 love | det |
| 33 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 answered | parataxis |
| 34 | of | of | ADP | _ | 36 God | case |
| 35 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 36 God | nmod:poss |
| 36 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 33 love | nmod |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 36 God | punct |
| 38 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 33 love | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | answer speech: assert in a quote | past | Reynaud | the love of my God parataxis | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | give | infinitive | one penny | me | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient penny=Theme | ||||
| 3 | have | may | I | wherewithal | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | keep | to-infinitive | wherewithal not said here | me | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme | ||||
| 5 | not work | present | I | for wages | vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for wage=Beneficiary | ||||
| 6 | love | my God | nom love «feeling transitive»: of=patient |
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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