Legends of the conquest of Spain, Skirmishing of the Armies.—pelistes and His Son.—pelistes and the Bishop., sentence 37
“My lord,” said he, “I, too, bear a weapon, and know how to wield it.
Who acts: lord · What happens: say, bear, know, wield · To what, where: weapon · 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 (lord), 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 | _ | 6 said | punct |
| 2 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 lord | nmod:poss |
| 3 | lord | lord | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 said | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 lord | punct |
| 5 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 lord | punct |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 I | nsubj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 I | punct |
| 9 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 I | punct |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 said | ccomp |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 bear | punct |
| 12 | too | too | ADV | _ | 14 bear | advmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 too | punct |
| 14 | bear | bear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 said | ccomp |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 weapon | det |
| 16 | weapon | weapon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 bear | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 know | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 know | cc |
| 19 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 bear | conj |
| 20 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 22 wield | advmod |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 wield | mark |
| 22 | wield | wield | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 know | ccomp |
| 23 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 wield | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | My lord | I ccomp | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | bear in a quote | infinitive | a weapon | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent weapon=Patient | |||||
| 3 | know in a quote | infinitive | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||||
| 4 | wield in a quote | to-infinitive | weapon | vn hold-15.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
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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