Legends of the conquest of Spain, Chapter I., sentence 28
I will be with thee speedily, with a reinforcement of troops competent to so great an enterprise.”
Who acts: I · What happens: be, reinforce · To what, where: troops
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 (I), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 thee | nsubj |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 thee | aux |
| 3 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 thee | cop |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 5 thee | case |
| 5 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | root | root |
| 6 | speedily | speedily | ADV | _ | 5 thee | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 reinforcement | punct |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 reinforcement | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 reinforcement | det |
| 10 | reinforcement | reinforcement | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 thee | appos |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 troops | case |
| 12 | troops | troops | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 10 reinforcement | nmod |
| 13 | competent | competent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 reinforcement | amod |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 great | mark |
| 15 | so | so | ADV | _ | 16 great | advmod |
| 16 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 competent | conj |
| 17 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 enterprise | det |
| 18 | enterprise | enterprise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 competent | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 reinforcement | punct |
| 20 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 thee | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | future | I | with thee; a reinforcement of troops appos; speedily property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | reinforce | troops | nom reinforcement «act transitive»: of=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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