Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How It Fared With the Brethren, sentence 77
If the King fail of his purpose this time, the opportunity will not soon come again."
Who acts: opportunity, Reynaud · What happens: not come, purpose
This is a sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How It Fared With the Brethren. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (opportunity, Reynaud), 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 4 fail | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 fail | det |
| 3 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 fail | compound |
| 4 | fail | fail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 come | advcl |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 purpose | case |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 purpose | nmod:poss |
| 7 | purpose | purpose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 fail | nmod |
| 8 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 9 time | det |
| 9 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 fail | obl:unmarked |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 fail | punct |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 opportunity | det |
| 12 | opportunity | opportunity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 come | nsubj |
| 13 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 come | aux |
| 14 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 16 come | advmod |
| 15 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 16 come | advmod |
| 16 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 17 | again | again | ADV | _ | 16 come | advmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 come | punct |
| 19 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 come | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not come | future | the opportunity | again | the King fail of Reynaud's purpose this time advcl; soon property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | purpose | Reynaud | nom purpose «cognition intransitive»: poss=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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