Legends of the conquest of Spain, Traitorous Message of Count Julian., sentence 13
When thou art admitted to the presence of the bishop, show him this ring, and he will commune with thee in secret.
Who acts: you, Cordova · What happens: admit, show, commune · To what, where: thou, presence, ring, Cordova, secret
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 (you, Cordova), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 admitted | advmod |
| 2 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 4 admitted | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | art | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 admitted | aux:pass |
| 4 | admitted | admit | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 show | advcl |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 presence | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 presence | det |
| 7 | presence | presence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 admitted | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 bishop | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 bishop | det |
| 10 | bishop | bishop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 presence | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 show | punct |
| 12 | show | show | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 show | iobj |
| 14 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 15 ring | det |
| 15 | ring | ring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 show | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 commune | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 commune | cc |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 commune | nsubj |
| 19 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 commune | aux |
| 20 | commune | commune | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 show | conj |
| 21 | with | with | ADP | _ | 22 thee | case |
| 22 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 20 commune | obl |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 secret | case |
| 24 | secret | secret | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 commune | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 show | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | admit speech: other | present · passive | thou | the presence of the bishop | vn confess-37.10 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Topic to presence=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | show | imperative | you not said here | this ring | Cordova | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient ring=Topic | |||
| 3 | commune | future | Cordova | secret | with thee | tree rules |
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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