Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the Doings of the French Knights, sentence 27

Lucifer said, "Old man, you dote; these things are naught; say, can your folk blow at the great coal?" "

Who acts: Lucifer, you, things, folk · What happens: say, dote, be, blow · To what, where: Old man, naught, great coal · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, Of the Doings of the French Knights. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Lucifer, you, things, folk), 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	Lucifer	Lucifer	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 said	nsubj
2	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 man	punct
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 man	punct
5	Old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 man	amod
6	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 said	ccomp
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 dote	punct
8	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	9 dote	nsubj
9	dote	dote	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 man	acl:relcl
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	14 naught	punct
11	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	12 things	det
12	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 naught	nsubj
13	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 naught	cop
14	naught	naught	PRON	PronType=Neg	2 said	ccomp
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 say	punct
16	say	say	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 said	parataxis
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 blow	punct
18	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 blow	aux
19	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 folk	nmod:poss
20	folk	folk	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 blow	nsubj
21	blow	blow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 say	ccomp
22	at	at	ADP	_	25 coal	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 coal	det
24	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 coal	amod
25	coal	coal	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 blow	obl
26	?	?	PUNCT	_	21 blow	punct
27	"	"	PUNCT	_	21 blow	punct
28	"	"	PUNCT	_	16 say	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: ask	past	Lucifer			Old man ccomp	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	dote in a quote	present	you	Old man not said here			tree rules
3	is a in a quote	present	this things	naught			tree rules
4	say speech: assert in a quote	infinitive					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	blow in a quote	can	your folk		the great coal		vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=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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🌲 Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the Doings of the French Knights, sentence 27

The tree

Pragmatics

Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the Doings of the French Knights, sentence 27