Legends of the conquest of Spain, The Field of Battle After the Defeat.—the Fate of Roderick., sentence 40
“Accursed,” said he, “be the impious and headlong vengeance of the traitor Julian.
Who acts: monarch · What happens: accurs, say, be · To what, where: impious vengeance · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, The Field of Battle After the Defeat.—the Fate of Roderick.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (monarch), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Accursed | punct |
| 2 | Accursed | accurs | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 said | ccomp |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Accursed | punct |
| 4 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Accursed | punct |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 said | nsubj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 vengeance | punct |
| 8 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 vengeance | punct |
| 9 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 14 vengeance | cop |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 vengeance | det |
| 11 | impious | impious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 vengeance | amod |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 headlong | cc |
| 13 | headlong | headlong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 impious | conj |
| 14 | vengeance | vengeance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 said | ccomp |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 traitor | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 traitor | det |
| 17 | traitor | traitor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 vengeance | nmod |
| 18 | Julian | Julian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 traitor | appos |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | accurs in a quote | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | monarch | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | is a in a quote | infinitive | the impious vengeance | of the traitor | 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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