Legends of the conquest of Spain, Chapter XIV., sentence 19
“‘Fear not,’ replied the stranger, ‘I am an angel from heaven, sent to reveal unto thee the fate of thy country.
Who acts: Fear, voice · What happens: reply, be, send, reveal, fate · To what, where: stranger, angel, heaven, fate, country
This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Chapter XIV.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Fear, voice), 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 Fear | punct |
| 3 | Fear | fear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 replied | nsubj |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 3 Fear | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 Fear | punct |
| 6 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 Fear | punct |
| 7 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 stranger | det |
| 9 | stranger | stranger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 replied | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 angel | punct |
| 11 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 15 angel | punct |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 angel | nsubj |
| 13 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 angel | cop |
| 14 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 angel | det |
| 15 | angel | angel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 replied | obl |
| 16 | from | from | ADP | _ | 17 heaven | case |
| 17 | heaven | heaven | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 angel | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 sent | punct |
| 19 | sent | send | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 angel | acl |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 reveal | mark |
| 21 | reveal | reveal | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 sent | advcl |
| 22 | unto | unto | ADP | _ | 23 thee | case |
| 23 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 21 reveal | obl |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 fate | det |
| 25 | fate | fate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 reveal | obj |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 country | case |
| 27 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 28 country | nmod:poss |
| 28 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 fate | nmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: assert in a quote | past | Fear | the stranger | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent stranger=Topic | ||||
| 2 | is a in a quote | present | a voice = voice | a angel | heaven | tree rules | |||
| 3 | send in a quote | participle | a angel not said here | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | reveal in a quote | to-infinitive | the fate of thy country | unto thee | vn confess-37.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fate=Topic | ||||
| 5 | fate in a quote | thy country | nom fate «event 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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