Legends of the conquest of Spain, Skirmishing of the Armies.—pelistes and His Son.—pelistes and the Bishop., sentence 38
Were the king not present you would not dare to menace, nor should you advance one step without my hastening to meet you.”
Who acts: king, you, my · What happens: be, not present, not dare, not menace, advance, hasten · To what, where: king, one step, you
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, you, my), 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 | Were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 king | cop |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 king | det |
| 3 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 present | nsubj |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 present | advmod |
| 5 | present | present | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 dare | nsubj |
| 7 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 dare | aux |
| 8 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 dare | advmod |
| 9 | dare | dare | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 present | ccomp |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 menace | mark |
| 11 | menace | menace | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 dare | xcomp |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 advance | punct |
| 13 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 16 advance | cc |
| 14 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 advance | aux |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 advance | nsubj |
| 16 | advance | advance | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 dare | conj |
| 17 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 18 step | nummod |
| 18 | step | step | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 advance | obj |
| 19 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 21 hastening | mark |
| 20 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 hastening | nsubj |
| 21 | hastening | hasten | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 16 advance | advcl |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 meet | mark |
| 23 | meet | meet | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 hastening | xcomp |
| 24 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 23 meet | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 present | punct |
| 26 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 present | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the king | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | not present | infinitive | the king | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | not dare | would | you | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | not menace | to-infinitive | you not said here | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 5 | advance | should | you | one step | vn caused_calibratable_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Causer step=Patient | ||||
| 6 | hasten | gerund | my | tree rules | |||||
| 7 | meet | to-infinitive | my not said here | you | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Co-Agent |
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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