Legends of the conquest of Spain, Chapter XI., sentence 23
“’Tis well,” replied Theodomir; “God will give me the field which you deny.
Who acts: Tis, God, you · What happens: reply, give, deny · To what, where: Theodomir, field, Tis · 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 (Tis, God, you), 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 | _ | 7 replied | punct |
| 2 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 Tis | punct |
| 3 | Tis | Tis | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 replied | nsubj |
| 4 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 3 Tis | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 well | punct |
| 6 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 Tis | punct |
| 7 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | Theodomir | Theodomir | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 replied | obj |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 give | punct |
| 10 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 give | punct |
| 11 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 give | nsubj |
| 12 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 give | aux |
| 13 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 replied | conj |
| 14 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 give | iobj |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 field | det |
| 16 | field | field | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 give | obj |
| 17 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 deny | obj |
| 18 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 19 deny | nsubj |
| 19 | deny | deny | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 field | acl:relcl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: assert | past | Tis | Theodomir | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent theodomir=Topic | ||||
| 2 | give in a quote | future | God | the field | Tis | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient field=Theme | |||
| 3 | deny in a quote | present | you | the field | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Agent which=Eventuality |
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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