Legends of the conquest of Spain, Defence of the Convent of St. George By Pelistes., sentence 24
All I ask of you before I go, is a solemn promise to defend yourselves to the last like brave men and Christian cavaliers, and never to renounce your faith, or throw yourselves on the mercy of the renegado Magued, or the traitor Julian.”
Who acts: All, I · What happens: ask, go, be, defend, not renounce, throw · To what, where: traitor Julian, solemn promise, yourselves, faith, mercy
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 (All, 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 | All | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 ask | nsubj |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 ask | nsubj |
| 3 | ask | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 you | case |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 ask | obl |
| 6 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 8 go | mark |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 go | nsubj |
| 8 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 promise | advcl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 go | punct |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 promise | cop |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 promise | det |
| 12 | solemn | solemn | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 promise | amod |
| 13 | promise | promise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 ask | parataxis |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 defend | mark |
| 15 | defend | defend | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 promise | acl |
| 16 | yourselves | yourselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 15 defend | obj |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 last | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 last | det |
| 19 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 defend | obl |
| 20 | like | like | ADP | _ | 22 men | case |
| 21 | brave | brave | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 men | amod |
| 22 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 last | obl |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 cavaliers | cc |
| 24 | Christian | Christian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 cavaliers | amod |
| 25 | cavaliers | cavalier | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 men | conj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 renounce | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 renounce | cc |
| 28 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 30 renounce | advmod |
| 29 | to | to | PART | _ | 30 renounce | mark |
| 30 | renounce | renounce | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 ask | conj |
| 31 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 faith | nmod:poss |
| 32 | faith | faith | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 renounce | obj |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 throw | punct |
| 34 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 35 throw | cc |
| 35 | throw | throw | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 ask | conj |
| 36 | yourselves | yourselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 35 throw | obj |
| 37 | on | on | ADP | _ | 39 mercy | case |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 mercy | det |
| 39 | mercy | mercy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 throw | obl |
| 40 | of | of | ADP | _ | 42 renegado | case |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 renegado | det |
| 42 | renegado | renegado | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 mercy | nmod |
| 43 | Magued | Magued | PROPN | Number=Sing | 42 renegado | appos |
| 44 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 48 Julian | punct |
| 45 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 48 Julian | cc |
| 46 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 47 traitor | det |
| 47 | traitor | traitor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 48 Julian | compound |
| 48 | Julian | Julian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 ask | obl |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 ask | punct |
| 50 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 ask | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | present | All | traitor Julian | of you; I nsubj | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V PP.recipient how S»: agent=Agent of you=Recipient | |||
| 2 | go | present | I | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | is a | present | a solemn promise | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | defend | to-infinitive | All not said here | yourselves | to the last like brave men and Christian cavaliers | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent yourselves=Beneficiary | |||
| 5 | not renounce | to-infinitive | All not said here | your faith | vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent faith=Source | ||||
| 6 | throw | infinitive | All not said here | yourselves | the mercy of the renegado | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent yourselves=Theme on mercy=Destination |
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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