Legends of the conquest of Spain, Chapter XIV., sentence 34

I know no higher duty than this, and if God thinks fit to strike me dead in the performance of it, his sovereign will be done!”

Who acts: I, God · What happens: know, think, fit, strike, do, perform · To what, where: higher duty, me, performance, sovereign

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 (I, God), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 know	nsubj
2	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	5 duty	det
4	higher	high	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 duty	amod
5	duty	duty	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 know	obj
6	than	than	ADP	_	7 this	case
7	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 duty	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 fit	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 fit	cc
10	if	if	SCONJ	_	12 thinks	mark
11	God	God	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 thinks	nsubj
12	thinks	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 fit	advcl
13	fit	fit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 know	conj
14	to	to	PART	_	15 strike	mark
15	strike	strike	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 fit	xcomp
16	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 strike	obj
17	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 strike	xcomp
18	in	in	ADP	_	20 performance	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 performance	det
20	performance	performance	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 strike	obl
21	of	of	ADP	_	22 it	case
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 performance	nmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 done	punct
24	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 sovereign	nmod:poss
25	sovereign	sovereign	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 done	nsubj
26	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 done	aux
27	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	28 done	aux:pass
28	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 know	parataxis
29	!	!	PUNCT	_	28 done	punct
30	”	"	PUNCT	_	28 done	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	know	present	I	no higher duty		than this	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer duty=Stimulus
2	think speech: other a condition, not said to happen	present	God				vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	fit	present	I not said here				tree rules
4	strike	to-infinitive	I not said here	me	the performance of performance	dead property	vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent i=Instrument
5	do	future · passive		God's sovereign			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality
6	perform			performance			nom performance «communication 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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🌲 Legends of the conquest of Spain, Chapter XIV., sentence 34

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Legends of the conquest of Spain, Chapter XIV., sentence 34