Legends of the conquest of Spain, Chapter IX., sentence 13

“Hitherto,” said he, “we have been enemies; but I come to thee in peace, and it rests with thee to make me the most devoted of thy friends.

Who acts: we, I, peace, me · What happens: say, be, come, rest, make, devote · To what, where: enemies, peace, me · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Chapter IX.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (we, I, peace, me), 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct
2	Hitherto	hitherto	ADV	_	5 said	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Hitherto	punct
4	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Hitherto	punct
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 said	ccomp
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 enemies	punct
8	“	"	PUNCT	_	12 enemies	punct
9	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 enemies	nsubj
10	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 enemies	aux
11	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	12 enemies	cop
12	enemies	enemy	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 he	conj
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 come	punct
14	but	but	CCONJ	_	16 come	cc
15	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 come	nsubj
16	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 said	conj
17	to	to	ADP	_	18 thee	case
18	thee	thou	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	16 come	obl
19	in	in	ADP	_	20 peace	case
20	peace	peace	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 come	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 rests	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 rests	cc
23	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 rests	nsubj
24	rests	rest	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 come	conj
25	with	with	ADP	_	26 thee	case
26	thee	thou	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	24 rests	obl
27	to	to	PART	_	28 make	mark
28	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 rests	advcl
29	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	28 make	obj
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 devoted	det
31	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	32 devoted	advmod
32	devoted	devote	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	28 make	xcomp
33	of	of	ADP	_	35 friends	case
34	thy	thy	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch	35 friends	nmod:poss
35	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 devoted	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past				COUNT ccomp; hitherto property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is a in a quote	present · perfect	we	enemies			tree rules
3	come in a quote	present	I		peace	to thee	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to thou=Initial_Location
4	rest in a quote	present	peace			with thee	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	make in a quote	to-infinitive	peace not said here	me			tree rules
6	devote in a quote	participle	me not said here			of thy friends	vn dedicate-79 «NP V NP S_ING»: 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: «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Project Gutenberg book 77685 (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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🌲 Legends of the conquest of Spain, Chapter IX., sentence 13

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Legends of the conquest of Spain, Chapter IX., sentence 13