Legends of the conquest of Spain, The Field of Battle After the Defeat.—the Fate of Roderick., sentence 42
May his name be bitter in every mouth, and his memory infamous to all generations.”
Who acts: name, memory, monarch · What happens: be, name · To what, where: mouth
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 (name, memory, 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 | May | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 bitter | aux |
| 2 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 name | nmod:poss |
| 3 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 bitter | nsubj |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 bitter | cop |
| 5 | bitter | bitter | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 mouth | case |
| 7 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 8 mouth | det |
| 8 | mouth | mouth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 bitter | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 infamous | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 infamous | cc |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 memory | nmod:poss |
| 12 | memory | memory | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 infamous | nsubj |
| 13 | infamous | infamous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 bitter | conj |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 generations | case |
| 15 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 16 generations | det |
| 16 | generations | generation | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 infamous | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 bitter | punct |
| 18 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 bitter | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | may | monarch's name | every mouth | bitter property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | be | monarch's memory | to all generations | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | name | monarch | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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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