Legends of the conquest of Spain, Battle of Calpe.—fate of Ataulpho., sentence 39
“Well dost thou, traitor!” cried he, “to attack the son of thy lord, who gave thee bread; thou, who hast betrayed thy country and thy God!”
Who acts: lord · What happens: do, cry, attack, give, betray · To what, where: thou, Traitor, son, bread, thee · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Battle of Calpe.—fate of Ataulpho.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (lord), 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 | _ | 9 cried | punct |
| 2 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 3 dost | discourse |
| 3 | dost | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 cried | advcl |
| 4 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 3 dost | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 traitor | punct |
| 6 | traitor | traitor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 dost | obl |
| 7 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 dost | punct |
| 8 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 dost | punct |
| 9 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 cried | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 attack | punct |
| 12 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 attack | punct |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 attack | mark |
| 14 | attack | attack | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 cried | conj |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 son | det |
| 16 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 attack | obj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 lord | case |
| 18 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 19 lord | nmod:poss |
| 19 | lord | lord | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 son | nmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 gave | punct |
| 21 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 gave | nsubj |
| 22 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 lord | acl:relcl |
| 23 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 22 gave | iobj |
| 24 | bread | bread | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 gave | obj |
| 25 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 30 betrayed | punct |
| 26 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 30 betrayed | nsubj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 betrayed | punct |
| 28 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 30 betrayed | nsubj |
| 29 | hast | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 30 betrayed | aux:pass |
| 30 | betrayed | betray | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 cried | parataxis |
| 31 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 32 country | nmod:poss |
| 32 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 betrayed | obj |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 God | cc |
| 34 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 35 God | nmod:poss |
| 35 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 country | nmod |
| 36 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 35 God | punct |
| 37 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 30 betrayed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do in a quote | present | thou | traitor obl | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thou=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | cry speech: express | past | Traitor | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | attack in a quote | to-infinitive | the son of thy lord | vn attack-60.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent son=Patient | |||||
| 4 | give in a quote | past | thy lord | bread | thee | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent thou=Recipient bread=Theme | |||
| 5 | betray in a quote | present · passive | thou | who nsubj; thy country thy God obj | tree rules |
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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