Legends of the conquest of Spain, Defence of the Convent of St. George By Pelistes., sentence 23
Loyal and true have ye been to me, and loyal have ye been to my son, even to the hour of his death; and grieved am I that I have no other means of proving my love for you, than by adventuring my worthless life for your deliverance.
Who acts: Loyal, ye, I, other, God, my · What happens: have, be, grieve, mean, prove, adventure · To what, where: love, worthless life · 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 (Loyal, ye, I, other), 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 | Loyal | loyal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 have | nsubj |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 true | cc |
| 3 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Loyal | conj |
| 4 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 8 me | nsubj |
| 6 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 8 me | cop |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 me | case |
| 8 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 have | parataxis |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 have | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 have | cc |
| 11 | loyal | loyal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 have | amod |
| 12 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 have | parataxis |
| 13 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 17 son | nsubj |
| 14 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 17 son | cop |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 son | case |
| 16 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 son | nmod:poss |
| 17 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 have | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 hour | punct |
| 19 | even | even | ADV | _ | 22 hour | advmod |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 hour | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 hour | det |
| 22 | hour | hour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 son | appos |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 death | case |
| 24 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 death | nmod:poss |
| 25 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 hour | nmod |
| 26 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 28 grieved | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 grieved | cc |
| 28 | grieved | grieve | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 have | conj |
| 29 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 33 have | cop |
| 30 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 33 have | nsubj |
| 31 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 33 have | mark |
| 32 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 33 have | nsubj |
| 33 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 grieved | ccomp |
| 34 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 35 other | det |
| 35 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 means | nsubj |
| 36 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 33 have | parataxis |
| 37 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 38 proving | mark |
| 38 | proving | prove | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 36 means | ccomp |
| 39 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 40 love | nmod:poss |
| 40 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 proving | obj |
| 41 | for | for | ADP | _ | 42 you | case |
| 42 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 38 proving | obl |
| 43 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 46 adventuring | punct |
| 44 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 46 adventuring | mark |
| 45 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 46 adventuring | mark |
| 46 | adventuring | adventure | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 38 proving | conj |
| 47 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 49 life | nmod:poss |
| 48 | worthless | worthless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 49 life | amod |
| 49 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 adventuring | obj |
| 50 | for | for | ADP | _ | 52 deliverance | case |
| 51 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 52 deliverance | nmod:poss |
| 52 | deliverance | deliverance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 adventuring | obl |
| 53 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | Loyal | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is | participle | ye | to me | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | have | present | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | is | participle | ye | to my son; my nmod:poss | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | grieve | past | Loyal not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | is | present | I | have property | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | mean | present | no other | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 8 | prove | gerund | my love | for you | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent love=Theme | ||||
| 9 | adventure | gerund | my worthless life | for your deliverance | tree rules | ||||
| 10 | die | God | nom death «event intransitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 11 | love | my | nom love «feeling transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 12 | deliver | your | nom deliverance «act 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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