Legends of the conquest of Spain, Chapter IX., sentence 16
Aid me in my vengeance, and I will deliver all Spain into thy hands: a land far exceeding in fertility and wealth all the vaunted regions thou hast conquered in Tingitania.”
Who acts: you, I, land · What happens: aid, deliver, exceed, conquer · To what, where: me, vengeance, Spain, hands, vaunted regions, Tingitania
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 (you, I, land), 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 | Aid | aid | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 1 Aid | obj |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 vengeance | case |
| 4 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 vengeance | nmod:poss |
| 5 | vengeance | vengeance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Aid | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 deliver | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 deliver | cc |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 deliver | nsubj |
| 9 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 deliver | aux |
| 10 | deliver | deliver | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Aid | conj |
| 11 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 12 Spain | det |
| 12 | Spain | Spain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 deliver | obj |
| 13 | into | into | ADP | _ | 15 hands | case |
| 14 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 15 hands | nmod:poss |
| 15 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 deliver | obl |
| 16 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 20 exceeding | punct |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 land | det |
| 18 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 exceeding | nsubj |
| 19 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 20 exceeding | advmod |
| 20 | exceeding | exceed | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 1 Aid | parataxis |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 fertility | case |
| 22 | fertility | fertility | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 exceeding | obl |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 wealth | cc |
| 24 | wealth | wealth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 fertility | conj |
| 25 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 28 regions | det:predet |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 regions | det |
| 27 | vaunted | vaunted | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 regions | amod |
| 28 | regions | region | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 conquered | nsubj:pass |
| 29 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 31 conquered | nsubj |
| 30 | hast | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 31 conquered | aux:pass |
| 31 | conquered | conquer | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 exceeding | parataxis |
| 32 | in | in | ADP | _ | 33 Tingitania | case |
| 33 | Tingitania | Tingitania | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 conquered | obl |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Aid | punct |
| 35 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Aid | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | aid | imperative | you not said here | me | my vengeance | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Beneficiary | |||
| 2 | deliver | future | I | all Spain | thy hands | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spain=Patient | |||
| 3 | exceed | gerund | a land | in fertility and wealth; far property | vn exceed-90 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot in fertility=Attribute | ||||
| 4 | conquer | present · passive | all vaunted regions | Tingitania | thou nsubj | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
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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