Legends of the conquest of Spain, Traitorous Message of Count Julian., sentence 10
If thou hast loyalty and affection for thy lord, now is the time to serve him.
Who acts: thou · What happens: have, be, serve · To what, where: loyalty, time, page
This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Traitorous Message of Count Julian.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (thou), 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 | _ | 3 hast | mark |
| 2 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 3 hast | nsubj |
| 3 | hast | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 time | advcl |
| 4 | loyalty | loyalty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 hast | obj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 affection | cc |
| 6 | affection | affection | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 loyalty | conj |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 lord | case |
| 8 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 9 lord | nmod:poss |
| 9 | lord | lord | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 hast | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 hast | punct |
| 11 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 14 time | advmod |
| 12 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 time | cop |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 time | det |
| 14 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 serve | mark |
| 16 | serve | serve | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 time | acl |
| 17 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 serve | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 time | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have a condition, not said to happen | present | thou | loyalty and affection | for thy lord | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent loyalty=Patient | |||
| 2 | is a | present | the time | now | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | serve | to-infinitive | page | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Attribute |
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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