Legends of the conquest of Spain, Chapter I., sentence 36
Follow up your blow before the land can recover from its panic.
Who acts: you, land, your · What happens: follow up, recover, blow, panic · To what, where: blow, panic
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 (you, land, your), 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 | Follow | follow | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | up | up | ADP | _ | 1 Follow | compound:prt |
| 3 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 blow | nmod:poss |
| 4 | blow | blow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Follow | obj |
| 5 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 9 recover | mark |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 land | det |
| 7 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 recover | nsubj |
| 8 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 recover | aux |
| 9 | recover | recover | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Follow | advcl |
| 10 | from | from | ADP | _ | 12 panic | case |
| 11 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 panic | nmod:poss |
| 12 | panic | panic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 recover | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Follow | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | follow up | imperative | you not said here | your blow | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | recover | can | the land | land's panic | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent from panic=Source | ||||
| 3 | blow | your | nom blow «act intransitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 4 | panic | land | nom panic «feeling 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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