Legends of the conquest of Spain, Defence of the Convent of St. George By Pelistes., sentence 12
There is but one chance of escape; it is full of peril, and, as your leader, I claim the right to brave it.
Who acts: one chance, chance, I, escape · What happens: be, claim, chance · To what, where: right
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 (one chance, chance, I, escape), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 is | expl |
| 2 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 chance | cc |
| 4 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 chance | nummod |
| 5 | chance | chance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 is | nsubj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 escape | case |
| 7 | escape | escape | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 chance | nmod |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 full | punct |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 full | nsubj |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 full | cop |
| 11 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 is | parataxis |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 peril | case |
| 13 | peril | peril | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 full | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 claim | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 claim | cc |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 and | punct |
| 17 | as | as | ADP | _ | 19 leader | case |
| 18 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 leader | nmod:poss |
| 19 | leader | leader | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 claim | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 leader | punct |
| 21 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 claim | nsubj |
| 22 | claim | claim | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 full | advcl |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 right | det |
| 24 | right | right | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 claim | obj |
| 25 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 brave | mark |
| 26 | brave | brave | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 right | amod |
| 27 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 brave | nsubj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 is | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | present | one chance of escape | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is | present | chance | of peril; full property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | claim speech: other | present | I | the right | as your leader | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent right=Topic | |||
| 4 | chance | escape | nom chance «state intransitive»: of=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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