Legends of the conquest of Spain, Of the Ancient Inhabitants of Spain.—of the Misrule of Witiza the Wicked., sentence 37
“Since the church of Toledo will not yield itself to our will,” said Witiza, “it shall have two husbands.”
Who acts: Witiza, church · What happens: not yield, say, have · To what, where: church, two husbands · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Of the Ancient Inhabitants of Spain.—of the Misrule of Witiza the Wicked.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Witiza, church), 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 | _ | 9 yield | punct |
| 2 | Since | since | ADP | _ | 4 church | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 church | det |
| 4 | church | church | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 yield | obl |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 Toledo | case |
| 6 | Toledo | Toledo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 church | nmod |
| 7 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 yield | aux |
| 8 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 yield | advmod |
| 9 | yield | yield | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 said | ccomp |
| 10 | itself | itself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 9 yield | obj |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 will | case |
| 12 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 will | nmod:poss |
| 13 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 yield | advcl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 will | punct |
| 15 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 yield | punct |
| 16 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | Witiza | Witiza | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 said | nsubj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 have | punct |
| 19 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 have | punct |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 have | nsubj |
| 21 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 have | aux |
| 22 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 said | ccomp |
| 23 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 24 husbands | nummod |
| 24 | husbands | husband | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 have | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 22 have | punct |
| 26 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not yield in a quote | future | church | since the church of Toledo | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent itself=Theme | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Witiza | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | have in a quote | shall | church | two husbands | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent husband=Patient |
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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