Legends of the conquest of Spain, Defence of the Convent of St. George By Pelistes., sentence 10
“Comrades and brothers in arms,” said he, “it is needless to conceal danger from brave men.
Who acts: Comrades, it · What happens: say, be, conceal · To what, where: danger · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Defence of the Convent of St. George By Pelistes.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Comrades, it), 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 | _ | 2 Comrades | punct |
| 2 | Comrades | comrade | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 said | nsubj |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 brothers | cc |
| 4 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 Comrades | conj |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 arms | case |
| 6 | arms | arm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 brothers | nmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Comrades | punct |
| 8 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Comrades | punct |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 said | nsubj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 needless | punct |
| 12 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 needless | punct |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 needless | nsubj |
| 14 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 needless | cop |
| 15 | needless | needless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 said | ccomp |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 conceal | mark |
| 17 | conceal | conceal | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 needless | csubj |
| 18 | danger | danger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 conceal | obj |
| 19 | from | from | ADP | _ | 21 men | case |
| 20 | brave | brave | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 men | amod |
| 21 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 conceal | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Comrades and brothers in arms | Pelistes nsubj | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | is in a quote | present | it | needless property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | conceal in a quote | to-infinitive | danger | from brave men | vn concealment-16 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent danger=Patient from man=Beneficiary |
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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