Legends of the conquest of Spain, Defence of the Convent of St. George By Pelistes., sentence 18
Should I fail in obtaining aid, I will return to die with you.”
Who acts: I · What happens: fail, obtain, return, die · To what, where: aid
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 (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 | Should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 fail | aux |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 fail | nsubj |
| 3 | fail | fail | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 5 obtaining | mark |
| 5 | obtaining | obtain | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 fail | advcl |
| 6 | aid | aid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 obtaining | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 return | punct |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 return | nsubj |
| 9 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 return | aux |
| 10 | return | return | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 fail | parataxis |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 die | mark |
| 12 | die | die | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 return | xcomp |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 you | case |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 die | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 fail | punct |
| 16 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 fail | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fail | should | I | vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | obtain | gerund | I not said here | aid | vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset aid=Theme | ||||
| 3 | return | future | I | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | die | to-infinitive | I not said here | with you | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
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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