Legends of the conquest of Spain, Chapter IX., sentence 27
Give me four galleys and a handful of men, and I will depart with this Count Julian, skirt the Christian coast, and bring thee back tidings of the land, and of his means to put it in our power.”
Who acts: you, I · What happens: give, depart, count, skirt, bring back, mean · To what, where: four galleys, me, Julian, Christian coast, thee, coast
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), 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 | Give | give | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 1 Give | iobj |
| 3 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 galleys | nummod |
| 4 | galleys | galley | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Give | obj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 handful | cc |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 handful | det |
| 7 | handful | handful | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 galleys | conj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 men | case |
| 9 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 handful | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 depart | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 depart | cc |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 depart | nsubj |
| 13 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 depart | aux |
| 14 | depart | depart | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Give | conj |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 this | case |
| 16 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 14 depart | obl |
| 17 | Count | count | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 14 depart | conj |
| 18 | Julian | Julian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 Count | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 skirt | punct |
| 20 | skirt | skirt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 Count | advcl |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 coast | det |
| 22 | Christian | Christian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 coast | amod |
| 23 | coast | coast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 skirt | obj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 bring | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 bring | cc |
| 26 | bring | bring | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Give | conj |
| 27 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 26 bring | obj |
| 28 | back | back | ADP | _ | 26 bring | compound:prt |
| 29 | tidings | tiding | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 bring | obj |
| 30 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 land | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 land | det |
| 32 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 tidings | nmod |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 means | punct |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 means | cc |
| 35 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 37 means | mark |
| 36 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 37 means | nmod:poss |
| 37 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Give | parataxis |
| 38 | to | to | PART | _ | 39 put | mark |
| 39 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 37 means | xcomp |
| 40 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 39 put | obj |
| 41 | in | in | ADP | _ | 43 power | case |
| 42 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 43 power | nmod:poss |
| 43 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 put | obl |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Give | punct |
| 45 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Give | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | imperative | you not said here | four galleys and a handful of men | me | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient galley=Theme | |||
| 2 | depart | future | I | with this | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | count | infinitive | I not said here | Julian | vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent julian=Theme | ||||
| 4 | skirt | present | I not said here | the Christian coast | vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme coast=Co-Theme | ||||
| 5 | bring back | infinitive | you not said here | thee | tidings of the land obj | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent thou=Destination tiding=Theme | |||
| 6 | mean | present | delight nmod:poss | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 7 | put not said to happen | to-infinitive | coast | our power | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme in power=Destination |
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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