Legends of the conquest of Spain, Chapter IX., sentence 15
Roderick the Goth is an usurper, and my deadly foe; he has wounded my honour in the tenderest point, and my country affords me no redress.
Who acts: Roderick, country, my · What happens: be, wound, afford, honour · To what, where: usurper, honour, tenderest point, me
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 (Roderick, country, my), 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 | Roderick | Roderick | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 usurper | nsubj |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Goth | det |
| 3 | Goth | Goth | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Roderick | flat |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 usurper | cop |
| 5 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 usurper | det |
| 6 | usurper | usurper | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 foe | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 foe | cc |
| 9 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 foe | nmod:poss |
| 10 | deadly | deadly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 foe | amod |
| 11 | foe | foe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 usurper | conj |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 wounded | punct |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 wounded | nsubj |
| 14 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 wounded | aux |
| 15 | wounded | wound | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 6 usurper | acl |
| 16 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 honour | nmod:poss |
| 17 | honour | honour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 wounded | obj |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 point | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 point | det |
| 20 | tenderest | tender | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 21 point | amod |
| 21 | point | point | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 wounded | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 affords | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 affords | cc |
| 24 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 country | nmod:poss |
| 25 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 affords | nsubj |
| 26 | affords | afford | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 usurper | conj |
| 27 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 26 affords | obj |
| 28 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 29 redress | det |
| 29 | redress | redress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 affords | obj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 usurper | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Roderick | a usurper and my deadly foe | my deadly foe conj | tree rules | |||
| 2 | wound | present · perfect | Roderick | my honour | the tenderest point | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus honour=Experiencer | |||
| 3 | afford | present | my country | me | no redress obj | tree rules | |||
| 4 | honour | my | nom honour «state transitive»: 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: «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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