Legends of the conquest of Spain, Letter of Muza to the Caliph.—second Expedition of Taric El Tuerto., sentence 52
Send us aid, senior, with instant speed; or, rather, come yourself to our assistance.”
Who acts: you, our · What happens: send, come, assist · To what, where: aid, us, yourself
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 (you, our), 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 | Send | send | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 1 Send | iobj |
| 3 | aid | aid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Send | obj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 senior | punct |
| 5 | senior | senior | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 aid | amod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 speed | punct |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 speed | case |
| 8 | instant | instant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 speed | amod |
| 9 | speed | speed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Send | conj |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 come | punct |
| 11 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 15 come | cc |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 or | punct |
| 13 | rather | rather | ADV | _ | 15 come | advmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 rather | punct |
| 15 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Send | conj |
| 16 | yourself | yourself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 15 come | obj |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 assistance | case |
| 18 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 assistance | nmod:poss |
| 19 | assistance | assistance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 come | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Send | punct |
| 21 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Send | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | send | imperative | you not said here | aid | us | instant speed conj | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent we=Destination aid=Theme | ||
| 2 | come | infinitive | you not said here | yourself | to our assistance | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location yourself=Theme | |||
| 3 | assist | our | nom assistance «act 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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