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title: If the King fail of his purpose this time, the opportunity will not… — Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of F… · tree and pragmatics
description: If the King fail of his purpose this time, the opportunity will not soon come again." Who acts: opportunity, Reynaud. A sentence of «Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France» by Alfred John Church, How It Fared With the Brethren, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clau
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# Stories of Charlemagne and the twelve Peers of France, How It Fared With the Brethren, sentence 77

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If the King fail of his purpose this time, the opportunity will not soon come again."

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**Who acts:** opportunity, Reynaud · **What happens:** not come, purpose

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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.

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

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg75339:5:77
# text = If the King fail of his purpose this time, the opportunity will not soon come again."
1	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	fail	fail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	advcl	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	purpose	purpose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
8	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	9	det	_	_
9	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	opportunity	opportunity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
13	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
14	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	16	advmod	_	_
15	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	16	advmod	_	_
16	come	come	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
17	again	again	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | 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 |

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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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