Legends of the conquest of Spain, Defence of the Convent of St. George By Pelistes., sentence 11
Our case is desperate: our countrymen either know not or heed not our situation, or have not the means to help us.
Who acts: case, countrymen, the · What happens: be, not know, not heed, have, not mean, help · To what, where: situation, us
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 (case, countrymen, the), 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 | Our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 case | nmod:poss |
| 2 | case | case | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 desperate | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 desperate | cop |
| 4 | desperate | desperate | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 9 know | punct |
| 6 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 countrymen | nmod:poss |
| 7 | countrymen | countryman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 know | nsubj |
| 8 | either | either | ADV | PronType=Ind | 9 know | advmod |
| 9 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 desperate | parataxis |
| 10 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 know | advmod |
| 11 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 12 heed | cc |
| 12 | heed | heed | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 know | conj |
| 13 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 heed | advmod |
| 14 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 situation | nmod:poss |
| 15 | situation | situation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 heed | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 have | punct |
| 17 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 18 have | cc |
| 18 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 know | conj |
| 19 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 21 means | advmod |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 means | nsubj |
| 21 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 have | advcl |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 help | mark |
| 23 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 means | xcomp |
| 24 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 help | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 desperate | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Our case | desperate property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not know | present | our countrymen | either property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | not heed | infinitive | our countrymen not said here | our situation | vn abide_by-93.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent situation=Theme | ||||
| 4 | have | present | our countrymen not said here | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | not mean | present | the | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 6 | help not said to happen | to-infinitive | the not said here | us | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=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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