Legends of the conquest of Spain, Terror of the Country.—roderick Rouses Himself to Arms., sentence 38
Should they prevail, your very existence as a nation is at an end.
Who acts: Saracens, nation, your · What happens: prevail, be, exist · To what, where: existence, end
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, nation, your), 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 | Should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 prevail | aux |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 prevail | nsubj |
| 3 | prevail | prevail | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 existence | punct |
| 5 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 existence | nmod:poss |
| 6 | very | very | ADV | _ | 7 existence | advmod |
| 7 | existence | existence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 prevail | obj |
| 8 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 14 end | mark |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 nation | det |
| 10 | nation | nation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 end | nsubj |
| 11 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 end | cop |
| 12 | at | at | ADP | _ | 14 end | case |
| 13 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 end | det |
| 14 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 prevail | advcl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 prevail | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | prevail | should | Saracens = saracen | your existence | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | present | a nation | at a end | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | exist | your | nom existence «state 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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