Legends of the conquest of Spain, Skirmishing of the Armies.—pelistes and His Son.—pelistes and the Bishop., sentence 28
“Let not my lord the king,” said he, “make light of these mysterious revelations, which appear to be so disastrously fulfilling.
Who acts: King, mysterious revelations · What happens: let, say, make, appear, fulfil, light · To what, where: king, lord, light, mysterious revelations · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Skirmishing of the Armies.—pelistes and His Son.—pelistes and the Bishop.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King, mysterious revelations), 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 | _ | 2 Let | punct |
| 2 | Let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 said | ccomp |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 lord | advmod |
| 4 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 lord | nmod:poss |
| 5 | lord | lord | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Let | obj |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 king | det |
| 7 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Let | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Let | punct |
| 9 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Let | punct |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 said | nsubj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 make | punct |
| 13 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 make | punct |
| 14 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 said | conj |
| 15 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 make | obj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 revelations | case |
| 17 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 19 revelations | det |
| 18 | mysterious | mysterious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 revelations | amod |
| 19 | revelations | revelation | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 light | nmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 appear | punct |
| 21 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 appear | nsubj |
| 22 | appear | appear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 revelations | acl:relcl |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 27 fulfilling | mark |
| 24 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 27 fulfilling | aux |
| 25 | so | so | ADV | _ | 27 fulfilling | advmod |
| 26 | disastrously | disastrously | ADV | _ | 27 fulfilling | advmod |
| 27 | fulfilling | fulfil | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 22 appear | advcl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let in a quote | infinitive | the king | my lord | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent lord=Recipient king=Theme | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | King | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | make in a quote | infinitive | King not said here | light of this mysterious revelations | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset light=Product | ||||
| 4 | appear in a quote | present | this mysterious revelations | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | fulfil in a quote | to-infinitive · progressive | this mysterious revelations not said here | disastrously property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | light in a quote | this mysterious revelations | nom light «phenomenon 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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