Legends of the conquest of Spain, Skirmishing of the Armies.—pelistes and His Son.—pelistes and the Bishop., sentence 33
If such counsel be acceptable to my lord the king, I stand ready to depart upon an embassy to the Moslem camp.”
Who acts: such counsel, I · What happens: be, stand, depart · To what, where: Moslem camp
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 (such counsel, 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 5 acceptable | mark |
| 2 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 counsel | amod |
| 3 | counsel | counsel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 acceptable | nsubj |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 acceptable | cop |
| 5 | acceptable | acceptable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 stand | advcl |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 lord | case |
| 7 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 lord | nmod:poss |
| 8 | lord | lord | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 acceptable | obl |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 king | det |
| 10 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 lord | appos |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 acceptable | punct |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 stand | nsubj |
| 13 | stand | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 stand | xcomp |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 depart | mark |
| 16 | depart | depart | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 ready | xcomp |
| 17 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 19 embassy | case |
| 18 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 embassy | det |
| 19 | embassy | embassy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 depart | obl |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 camp | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 camp | det |
| 22 | Moslem | Moslem | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 camp | amod |
| 23 | camp | camp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 depart | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 stand | punct |
| 25 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 stand | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a condition, not said to happen | infinitive | such counsel | to my lord; acceptable property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | stand | present | I | ready property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | depart | to-infinitive | I not said here | the Moslem camp | upon a embassy | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to camp=Initial_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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