Legends of the conquest of Spain, Chapter IX., sentence 20
“These words of Count Julian,” said he, “may be false and deceitful; or he may not possess the power to fulfil his promises.
Who acts: words, JULIAN · What happens: say, be, not possess, fulfil, word, promise · To what, where: power, promises, Count Julian · 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 (words, JULIAN), 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 | _ | 9 said | punct |
| 2 | These | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 3 words | det |
| 3 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 said | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 Julian | case |
| 5 | Count | Count | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Julian | compound |
| 6 | Julian | Julian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 words | nmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 words | punct |
| 8 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 words | punct |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 said | nsubj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 false | punct |
| 12 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 false | punct |
| 13 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 false | aux |
| 14 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 15 false | cop |
| 15 | false | false | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 said | parataxis |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 deceitful | cc |
| 17 | deceitful | deceitful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 false | conj |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 23 possess | punct |
| 19 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 23 possess | cc |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 possess | nsubj |
| 21 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 possess | aux |
| 22 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 23 possess | advmod |
| 23 | possess | possess | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 said | conj |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 power | det |
| 25 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 possess | obj |
| 26 | to | to | PART | _ | 27 fulfil | mark |
| 27 | fulfil | fulfil | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 possess | advcl |
| 28 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 promises | nmod:poss |
| 29 | promises | promise | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 fulfil | obj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | this words of Count Julian | JULIAN nsubj | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | is in a quote | may | false property | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | be in a quote | tree rules | |||||||
| 4 | not possess in a quote | may | JULIAN | the power | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot power=Theme | ||||
| 5 | fulfil in a quote | to-infinitive | JULIAN not said here | JULIAN's promises | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | word in a quote | Count Julian | nom word «communication transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 7 | promise in a quote | JULIAN | nom promise «communication 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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