Legends of the conquest of Spain, Terror of the Country.—roderick Rouses Himself to Arms., sentence 37
“The Saracens,” said he, “are ravaging our land, and their object is our conquest.
Who acts: Saracens, object · What happens: say, ravage, be · To what, where: land, conquest · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Terror of the Country.—roderick Rouses Himself to Arms.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Saracens, object), 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 | _ | 6 said | punct |
| 2 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Saracens | det |
| 3 | Saracens | Saracen | PROPN | Number=Plur | 6 said | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 Saracens | punct |
| 5 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 Saracens | punct |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 said | nsubj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 ravaging | punct |
| 9 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 ravaging | punct |
| 10 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 ravaging | aux |
| 11 | ravaging | ravage | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 said | advcl |
| 12 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 land | nmod:poss |
| 13 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 ravaging | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 conquest | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 conquest | cc |
| 16 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 object | nmod:poss |
| 17 | object | object | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 conquest | nsubj |
| 18 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 conquest | cop |
| 19 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 conquest | nmod:poss |
| 20 | conquest | conquest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 ravaging | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the Saracens | king nsubj | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | ravage in a quote | present · progressive | the Saracens not said here | our land | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent land=Patient | ||||
| 3 | is a in a quote | present | Saracens's object | our conquest | our nmod:poss | 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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