Legends of the conquest of Spain, Meeting Between the Patriot Pelistes and the Traitor Julian., sentence 12
Yet there is one man over whose loss I will never cease to grieve.
Who acts: one man, I · What happens: be, not cease, grieve · To what, where: loss
This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Meeting Between the Patriot Pelistes and the Traitor Julian.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (one man, 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 | Yet | yet | CCONJ | _ | 3 is | cc |
| 2 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 3 is | expl |
| 3 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 man | nummod |
| 5 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 is | nsubj |
| 6 | over | over | ADP | _ | 8 loss | case |
| 7 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 8 loss | nmod:poss |
| 8 | loss | loss | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 man | nmod |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 cease | nsubj |
| 10 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 cease | aux |
| 11 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 12 cease | advmod |
| 12 | cease | cease | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 loss | acl:relcl |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 grieve | mark |
| 14 | grieve | grieve | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 cease | xcomp |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 is | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | present | one man over one man over one man's loss's loss | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | not cease | future | I | one man over one man over loss's loss's loss not said here | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | grieve | to-infinitive | I not said here | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
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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