Legends of the conquest of Spain, Chapter XI., sentence 16

“Tell your commander,” replied he, “that I have crossed the strait to conquer Spain, nor will I return until I have accomplished my purpose.

Who acts: you, eye, I, my · What happens: tell, reply, cross, conquer, return, accomplish · To what, where: commander, strait, Spain, purpose · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Chapter XI.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, eye, I, my), 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	_	2 Tell	punct
2	Tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 commander	nmod:poss
4	commander	commander	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Tell	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Tell	punct
6	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Tell	punct
7	replied	reply	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 Tell	ccomp
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 replied	nsubj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 crossed	punct
10	“	"	PUNCT	_	14 crossed	punct
11	that	that	SCONJ	_	14 crossed	mark
12	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 crossed	nsubj
13	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 crossed	aux
14	crossed	cross	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 Tell	advcl
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 strait	det
16	strait	strait	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 crossed	obj
17	to	to	PART	_	18 conquer	mark
18	conquer	conquer	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 strait	acl
19	Spain	Spain	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 conquer	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 return	punct
21	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	24 return	cc
22	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 return	aux
23	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 return	nsubj
24	return	return	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 Tell	parataxis
25	until	until	SCONJ	_	28 accomplished	mark
26	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	28 accomplished	nsubj
27	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 accomplished	aux
28	accomplished	accomplish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	24 return	advcl
29	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 purpose	nmod:poss
30	purpose	purpose	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 accomplished	obj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 Tell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	tell speech: assert in a quote	imperative	you not said here	your commander	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent commander=Recipient clause=Topic
2	reply speech: assert	past	eye		vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	cross in a quote	present · perfect	I	the strait	vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent strait=Patient
4	conquer in a quote	to-infinitive	I not said here	Spain	vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spain=Patient
5	return in a quote	future	I		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	accomplish in a quote	present · perfect	I	my purpose	vn complete-55.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent purpose=Eventuality
7	purpose in a quote		my		nom purpose «cognition 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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🌲 Legends of the conquest of Spain, Chapter XI., sentence 16

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Legends of the conquest of Spain, Chapter XI., sentence 16