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title: Lucifer said, "Old man, you dote; these things are naught; say, can… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: 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. A sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, Of the Doings of the French Knights, with its dependency tree an
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, Of the Doings of the French Knights, sentence 27

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

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

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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.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg75339:22:27
# text = Lucifer said, "Old man, you dote; these things are naught; say, can your folk blow at the great coal?" "
1	Lucifer	Lucifer	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
4	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	Old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	dote	dote	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
11	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	12	det	_	_
12	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj	_	_
13	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
14	naught	naught	PRON	NN	PronType=Neg	2	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
16	say	say	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
18	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
19	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	folk	folk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
21	blow	blow	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	ccomp	_	_
22	at	at	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	coal	coal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	21	punct	_	_
28	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | 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 |

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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.

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**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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