Legends of the conquest of Spain, Chapter XI., sentence 17

Tell him I have men skilled in war, and armed in proof, with whose aid I trust soon to give a good account of his rabble host.”

Who acts: you, I · What happens: tell, have, skill, trust, give, account · To what, where: eye, men, war, good account, rabble host · 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, I), 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	Tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Tell	iobj
3	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 have	nsubj
4	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Tell	ccomp
5	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 have	obj
6	skilled	skill	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 men	acl
7	in	in	ADP	_	8 war	case
8	war	war	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 skilled	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 armed	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 armed	cc
11	armed	armed	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Tell	advcl
12	in	in	ADP	_	13 proof	case
13	proof	proof	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 armed	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 trust	punct
15	with	with	ADP	_	17 aid	case
16	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	17 aid	nmod:poss
17	aid	aid	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 trust	obl
18	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 trust	nsubj
19	trust	trust	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Tell	advcl
20	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	19 trust	advmod
21	to	to	PART	_	22 give	mark
22	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 trust	xcomp
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 account	det
24	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 account	amod
25	account	account	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 give	obj
26	of	of	ADP	_	29 host	case
27	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 host	nmod:poss
28	rabble	rabble	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 host	compound
29	host	host	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 account	nmod
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Tell	punct
31	”	"	PUNCT	_	1 Tell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	imperative	you not said here		eye			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
2	have	present	I	men				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Patient
3	skill	participle		men not said here		war		tree rules
4	trust	present	I				with aid; soon property	vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
5	give	to-infinitive	I not said here	a good account of eye's rabble host				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent account=Theme
6	account			eye's rabble host				nom account «communication transitive»: of=patient

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 17

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Pragmatics

Legends of the conquest of Spain, Chapter XI., sentence 17