Legends of the conquest of Spain, Chapter XIV., sentence 39
But thou hast counselled like a loyal and a Christian knight, and I thank God for having given me a son worthy to perpetuate the honours of my line.
Who acts: I · What happens: counsell, thank, give, perpetuate, honour · To what, where: thou, God, son, honours, line
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), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 4 counselled | cc |
| 2 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 4 counselled | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | hast | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 counselled | aux |
| 4 | counselled | counsell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | like | like | ADP | _ | 7 loyal | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 loyal | det |
| 7 | loyal | loyal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 counselled | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 knight | cc |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 knight | det |
| 10 | Christian | Christian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 knight | amod |
| 11 | knight | knight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 loyal | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 thank | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 thank | cc |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 thank | nsubj |
| 15 | thank | thank | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 counselled | parataxis |
| 16 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 thank | obj |
| 17 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 19 given | mark |
| 18 | having | have | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 19 given | aux |
| 19 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 15 thank | advcl |
| 20 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 given | iobj |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 son | det |
| 22 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 given | iobj |
| 23 | worthy | worthy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 given | xcomp |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 perpetuate | mark |
| 25 | perpetuate | perpetuate | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 worthy | xcomp |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 honours | det |
| 27 | honours | honour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 perpetuate | obj |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 line | case |
| 29 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 line | nmod:poss |
| 30 | line | line | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 honours | nmod |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 counselled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | counsell | present · perfect · passive | thou | like a loyal and a Christian knight | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | thank speech: thank | present | I | God | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent god=Theme | ||||
| 3 | give | gerund · perfect | I not said here | a son | me iobj; worthy property | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient son=Theme | |||
| 4 | perpetuate | to-infinitive | I not said here | the honours of my line | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent honour=Patient | ||||
| 5 | honour | my line | nom honour «state 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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