Legends of the conquest of Spain, Skirmishing of the Armies.—pelistes and His Son.—pelistes and the Bishop., sentence 32
Better is it that we should make a treaty with the enemy, and, by granting part of his demands, prevent the utter ruin of our country.
Who acts: Destruction, we, Heaven · What happens: be, make, grant, prevent, demand, ruin · To what, where: treaty, part, utter ruin, country
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 (Destruction, we, Heaven), 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 | Better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | root | root |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Better | cop |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Better | nsubj |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 7 make | mark |
| 5 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 make | nsubj |
| 6 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 make | aux |
| 7 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Better | advcl |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 treaty | det |
| 9 | treaty | treaty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 make | obj |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 enemy | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 enemy | det |
| 12 | enemy | enemy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 make | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 prevent | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 prevent | cc |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 and | punct |
| 16 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 17 granting | mark |
| 17 | granting | grant | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 23 prevent | advcl |
| 18 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 granting | obj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 demands | case |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 demands | nmod:poss |
| 21 | demands | demand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 part | nmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 granting | punct |
| 23 | prevent | prevent | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Better | conj |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 ruin | det |
| 25 | utter | utter | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 ruin | amod |
| 26 | ruin | ruin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 prevent | obj |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 country | case |
| 28 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 country | nmod:poss |
| 29 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 ruin | nmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Better | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Destruction | good property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | make | should | we | a treaty | with the enemy | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent treaty=Product | |||
| 3 | grant | gerund | part of Heaven's demands | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent part=Theme | |||||
| 4 | prevent | present | Destruction not said here | the utter ruin of our country | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer ruin=Theme | ||||
| 5 | demand | Heaven | nom demand «communication transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 6 | ruin | our country | nom ruin «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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