Legends of the conquest of Spain, Letter of Muza to the Caliph.—second Expedition of Taric El Tuerto., sentence 25
“There is no escape for the coward!” cried Taric: “the brave man thinks of none: your only chance is victory.”
Who acts: escape, brave man, only chance, your · What happens: be, cry, think, chance · To what, where: victory · 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 (escape, brave man, only chance, your), 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 | _ | 3 is | punct |
| 2 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 3 is | expl |
| 3 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 cried | parataxis |
| 4 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 5 escape | det |
| 5 | escape | escape | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 is | nsubj |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 coward | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 coward | det |
| 8 | coward | coward | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 escape | nmod |
| 9 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 is | punct |
| 10 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 is | punct |
| 11 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | Taric | Taric | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 cried | flat |
| 13 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 18 thinks | punct |
| 14 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 thinks | punct |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 man | det |
| 16 | brave | brave | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 man | amod |
| 17 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 thinks | nsubj |
| 18 | thinks | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 cried | conj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 none | case |
| 20 | none | none | PRON | PronType=Neg | 18 thinks | obl |
| 21 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 26 victory | punct |
| 22 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 chance | nmod:poss |
| 23 | only | only | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 chance | amod |
| 24 | chance | chance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 victory | nsubj |
| 25 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 victory | cop |
| 26 | victory | victory | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 none | conj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 thinks | punct |
| 28 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 thinks | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be in a quote | present | no escape for the coward | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | cry speech: express | past | Taric flat | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | think speech: other in a quote | present | the brave man | of none | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | is a in a quote | present | your only chance | victory | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | chance in a quote | your | nom chance «state intransitive»: 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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