Legends of the conquest of Spain, Of the Ancient Inhabitants of Spain.—of the Misrule of Witiza the Wicked., sentence 41
“We will suffer no foreign ecclesiastic with triple crown,” said he, “to domineer over our dominions.”
Who acts: We, Witiza · What happens: suffer, say, domineer · To what, where: dominions · 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 (We, Witiza), 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 | _ | 4 suffer | punct |
| 2 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 suffer | nsubj |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 suffer | aux |
| 4 | suffer | suffer | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 said | ccomp |
| 5 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 7 ecclesiastic | det |
| 6 | foreign | foreign | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 ecclesiastic | amod |
| 7 | ecclesiastic | ecclesiastic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 suffer | csubj |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 crown | case |
| 9 | triple | triple | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 crown | amod |
| 10 | crown | crown | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 ecclesiastic | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 suffer | punct |
| 12 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 suffer | punct |
| 13 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 said | nsubj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 domineer | punct |
| 16 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 domineer | punct |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 domineer | mark |
| 18 | domineer | domineer | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 said | ccomp |
| 19 | over | over | ADP | _ | 21 dominions | case |
| 20 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 dominions | nmod:poss |
| 21 | dominions | dominion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 domineer | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 domineer | punct |
| 23 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 domineer | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | suffer in a quote | future | We | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Witiza | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | domineer in a quote | to-infinitive | our dominions | 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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