Legends of the conquest of Spain, Letter of Muza to the Caliph.—second Expedition of Taric El Tuerto., sentence 26
“But how, without ships, shall we ever return to our homes?”
Who acts: ships · What happens: return
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 (ships), 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 | _ | 11 return | punct |
| 2 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 return | cc |
| 3 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 11 return | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 ships | punct |
| 5 | without | without | ADP | _ | 6 ships | case |
| 6 | ships | ship | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 return | nsubj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 return | punct |
| 8 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 return | aux |
| 9 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 return | nsubj |
| 10 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 11 return | advmod |
| 11 | return | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 homes | case |
| 13 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 homes | nmod:poss |
| 14 | homes | home | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 return | obl |
| 15 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 11 return | punct |
| 16 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 return | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | return in a quote | shall | ships | ever | to our homes result; we nsubj | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to home=Result |
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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