Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the Doings of the French Knights, sentence 38
Lucifer, I reckon, will have no more desire to play with you at the great coal.
Who acts: I · What happens: reckon, have, play · To what, where: Lucifer, more desire, great coal
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 (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 | Lucifer | Lucifer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 have | vocative |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 reckon | punct |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 reckon | nsubj |
| 4 | reckon | reckon | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Lucifer | acl:relcl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Lucifer | punct |
| 6 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 have | aux |
| 7 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 10 desire | det |
| 9 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 10 desire | amod |
| 10 | desire | desire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 have | obj |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 play | mark |
| 12 | play | play | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 desire | acl |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 you | case |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 play | obl |
| 15 | at | at | ADP | _ | 18 coal | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 coal | det |
| 17 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 coal | amod |
| 18 | coal | coal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 play | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reckon | present | I | Lucifer not said here | vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent lucifer=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | have | future | no more desire | Lucifer vocative | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent desire=Patient | ||||
| 3 | play | to-infinitive | no more desire not said here | the great coal | with you | vn play-114.2-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with you=Co-Agent |
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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