Legends of the conquest of Spain, Chapter XIV., sentence 22
Warn them that such only shall be saved as shall abandon Roderick; but those who adhere to him shall share his punishment, and shall fall under the sword of the invader.’”
Who acts: you, those, Roderick · What happens: warn, save, abandon, adhere, share, fall · To what, where: countrymen, Roderick, punishment, sword
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 (you, those, Roderick), 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 | Warn | warn | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Warn | obj |
| 3 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 8 saved | mark |
| 4 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP | 8 saved | mark |
| 5 | only | only | ADV | _ | 4 such | advmod |
| 6 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 saved | aux |
| 7 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 8 saved | aux:pass |
| 8 | saved | save | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 1 Warn | advcl |
| 9 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 11 abandon | mark |
| 10 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 abandon | aux |
| 11 | abandon | abandon | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 saved | advcl |
| 12 | Roderick | Roderick | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 abandon | obj |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 share | punct |
| 14 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 those | cc |
| 15 | those | that | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 21 share | nsubj |
| 16 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 adhere | nsubj |
| 17 | adhere | adhere | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 those | acl:relcl |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 him | case |
| 19 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 adhere | obl |
| 20 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 share | aux |
| 21 | share | share | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Warn | conj |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 punishment | nmod:poss |
| 23 | punishment | punishment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 share | obj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 fall | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 fall | cc |
| 26 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 27 fall | aux |
| 27 | fall | fall | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Warn | parataxis |
| 28 | under | under | ADP | _ | 30 sword | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 sword | det |
| 30 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 fall | obl |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 33 invader | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 invader | det |
| 33 | invader | invader | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 sword | nmod |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 27 fall | punct |
| 35 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 27 fall | punct |
| 36 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Warn | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | warn speech: warn | imperative | you not said here | countrymen = countryman | vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | save | shall · passive | you not said here | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP» | |||||
| 3 | abandon | shall | you not said here | Roderick | vn leave-51.2 «NP V NP.initial_location»: agent=Theme roderick=Source | ||||
| 4 | adhere | present | Roderick | who nsubj | vn cling-22.5 «NP V PP.co-theme»: agent=Theme to he=Co-Theme | ||||
| 5 | share | shall | those | Roderick's punishment | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | fall | shall | the sword of the invader | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme under sword=Location | |||||
| 7 | punish | Roderick | nom punishment «act transitive»: 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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