Legends of the conquest of Spain, Traitorous Message of Count Julian., sentence 16
Have thy lips closed, but thine eyes and ears open; and observe every thing of note in the camp of the king.
Who acts: eyes · What happens: have, close, open, observe · To what, where: lips, thing, camp
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 (eyes), 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 | Have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 3 lips | nmod:poss |
| 3 | lips | lip | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Have | obj |
| 4 | closed | close | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 lips | acl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 open | punct |
| 6 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 open | cc |
| 7 | thine | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 8 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 8 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 open | nsubj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 ears | cc |
| 10 | ears | ear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 eyes | conj |
| 11 | open | open | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Have | conj |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 observe | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 observe | cc |
| 14 | observe | observe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Have | conj |
| 15 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 16 thing | det |
| 16 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 observe | obj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 note | case |
| 18 | note | note | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 thing | nmod |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 camp | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 camp | det |
| 21 | camp | camp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 observe | obl |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 king | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 king | det |
| 24 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 camp | nmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | thy lips | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lip=Patient | |||||
| 2 | close | participle | thy lips not said here | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 3 | open | present | thine eyes and ears | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | observe | present | every thing of note | the camp of the king | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent thing=Topic |
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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