Legends of the conquest of Spain, Letter of Muza to the Caliph.—second Expedition of Taric El Tuerto., sentence 24
“How shall we escape,” exclaimed they, “if the fortune of war should be against us?”
Who acts: we · What happens: escape, exclaim, be · To what, where: Moslems · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Letter of Muza to the Caliph.—second Expedition of Taric El Tuerto.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (we), 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 escape | punct |
| 2 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 escape | advmod |
| 3 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 escape | aux |
| 4 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 escape | nsubj |
| 5 | escape | escape | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 exclaimed | ccomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 escape | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 escape | punct |
| 8 | exclaimed | exclaim | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 exclaimed | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 us | punct |
| 11 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 us | punct |
| 12 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 18 be | mark |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 fortune | det |
| 14 | fortune | fortune | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 be | nsubj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 war | case |
| 16 | war | war | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 fortune | nmod |
| 17 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 be | aux |
| 18 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 20 us | cop |
| 19 | against | against | ADP | _ | 20 us | case |
| 20 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 exclaimed | parataxis |
| 21 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 8 exclaimed | punct |
| 22 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 exclaimed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | escape in a quote | shall | we | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | exclaim speech: express | past | Moslems = moslem | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | is in a quote | infinitive | against us | tree rules |
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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