Legends of the conquest of Spain, Chapter XIV., sentence 38
Hadst thou counselled otherwise than thou hast done, hadst thou shown thyself craven and disloyal, so help me God, I would have struck off thy head with this weapon which I hold in my hand.
Who acts: thou, I, weapon · What happens: have, counsell, do, show, help, strike off · To what, where: thyself, me, head, hand
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 (thou, I, weapon), 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 | Hadst | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 3 counselled | nsubj |
| 3 | counselled | counsell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Hadst | conj |
| 4 | otherwise | otherwise | ADV | _ | 3 counselled | advmod |
| 5 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 8 done | mark |
| 6 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 8 done | nsubj |
| 7 | hast | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 done | aux |
| 8 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 otherwise | advcl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 hadst | punct |
| 10 | hadst | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Hadst | conj |
| 11 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 12 shown | nsubj |
| 12 | shown | show | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 hadst | ccomp |
| 13 | thyself | thyself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes Style=Arch | 12 shown | obj |
| 14 | craven | craven | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 shown | obj |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 disloyal | cc |
| 16 | disloyal | disloyal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 craven | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 help | punct |
| 18 | so | so | ADV | _ | 19 help | advmod |
| 19 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Hadst | advcl |
| 20 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 help | obj |
| 21 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 help | obj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 struck | punct |
| 23 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 26 struck | nsubj |
| 24 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 struck | aux |
| 25 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 26 struck | aux |
| 26 | struck | strike | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 1 Hadst | parataxis |
| 27 | off | off | ADP | _ | 26 struck | compound:prt |
| 28 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 29 head | nmod:poss |
| 29 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 struck | obj |
| 30 | with | with | ADP | _ | 32 weapon | case |
| 31 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 32 weapon | det |
| 32 | weapon | weapon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 struck | obl |
| 33 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 35 hold | nsubj |
| 34 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 35 hold | nsubj |
| 35 | hold | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 32 weapon | acl:relcl |
| 36 | in | in | ADP | _ | 38 hand | case |
| 37 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 38 hand | nmod:poss |
| 38 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 hold | obl |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Hadst | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | counsell | past | thou | otherwise property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | do | present · perfect | thou | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | have | past | tree rules | ||||||
| 5 | show | participle | thou | thyself | craven and disloyal obj | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent thyself=Recipient craven=Topic | |||
| 6 | help | infinitive | me | God obj | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | strike off | would · perfect | I | thy head | with this weapon | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent head=Patient with weapon=Instrument | |||
| 8 | hold | present | this weapon | my hand | I nsubj | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in hand=Location |
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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