Legends of the conquest of Spain, Chapter I., sentence 26
“Wherever this letter may find thee,” said he, “I charge thee halt with thy army and await my coming.
Who acts: letter · What happens: find, say, charge, await, come · To what, where: thee, halt · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Chapter I.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (letter), 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 | _ | 6 find | punct |
| 2 | Wherever | wherever | ADV | PronType=Int | 6 find | advmod |
| 3 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 letter | det |
| 4 | letter | letter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 find | nsubj |
| 5 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 find | aux |
| 6 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 said | ccomp |
| 7 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 6 find | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 find | punct |
| 9 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 find | punct |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 said | nsubj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 charge | punct |
| 13 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 charge | punct |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 charge | nsubj |
| 15 | charge | charge | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 said | ccomp |
| 16 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 15 charge | iobj |
| 17 | halt | halt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 charge | obj |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 army | case |
| 19 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 20 army | nmod:poss |
| 20 | army | army | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 charge | obl |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 await | cc |
| 22 | await | await | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 15 charge | conj |
| 23 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 coming | nsubj |
| 24 | coming | come | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 22 await | ccomp |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find in a quote | may | this letter | thee | wherever property | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thou=Topic | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | letter | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | charge in a quote | present | letter | halt | thee | with thy army | vn bill-54.5-1 «NP V NP NP.asset»: agent=Agent thou=Recipient halt=Asset | ||
| 4 | await in a quote | infinitive | letter not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | come in a quote | gerund | letter | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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