Legends of the conquest of Spain, Traitorous Message of Count Julian., sentence 12
If any one ask thee who thou art, tell them thou art of the household of the bishop, and bearer of missives from Cordova.
Who acts: one, you · What happens: ask, tell · To what, where: thee, bearer, loyalty · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (one, you), 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 | _ | 4 ask | mark |
| 2 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 3 one | det |
| 3 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 ask | nsubj |
| 4 | ask | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 tell | advcl |
| 5 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 4 ask | obj |
| 6 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 ask | obj |
| 7 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 8 art | nsubj |
| 8 | art | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 who | acl:relcl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 ask | punct |
| 10 | tell | tell | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 tell | iobj |
| 12 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 13 art | nsubj |
| 13 | art | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 tell | ccomp |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 household | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 household | det |
| 16 | household | household | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 art | obl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 bishop | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 bishop | det |
| 19 | bishop | bishop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 household | nmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 bearer | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 bearer | cc |
| 22 | bearer | bearer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 tell | obl |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 missives | case |
| 24 | missives | missive | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 bearer | nmod |
| 25 | from | from | ADP | _ | 26 Cordova | case |
| 26 | Cordova | Cordova | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 missives | nmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 tell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask a condition, not said to happen | infinitive | any one | thee | who obj | tree rules | |||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | imperative | you not said here | bearer of missives from Cordova | loyalty | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Recipient |
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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