Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of Guy of Burgundy, sentence 90
But the magician had yet other devices to use against the Christians.
Who acts: magician · What happens: have, use · To what, where: other devices
This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, Of Guy of Burgundy. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (magician), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 4 had | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 magician | det |
| 3 | magician | magician | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 had | nsubj |
| 4 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 7 devices | advmod |
| 6 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 devices | amod |
| 7 | devices | device | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 had | obj |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 use | mark |
| 9 | use | use | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 had | advcl |
| 10 | against | against | ADP | _ | 12 Christians | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Christians | det |
| 12 | Christians | Christian | PROPN | Number=Plur | 9 use | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | the magician | other devices | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent device=Patient | ||||
| 2 | use | to-infinitive | the magician not said here | against the Christians | vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=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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