Legends of the conquest of Spain, Meeting Between the Patriot Pelistes and the Traitor Julian., sentence 23
“Noble cavalier,” exclaimed they, “has grief disordered thy senses?
Who acts: Noble cavalier, grief · What happens: exclaim, have, disorder · To what, where: Pelistes, grief, senses · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Noble cavalier, grief), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 cavalier | punct |
| 2 | Noble | noble | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 cavalier | amod |
| 3 | cavalier | cavalier | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 exclaimed | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 cavalier | punct |
| 5 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 cavalier | punct |
| 6 | exclaimed | exclaim | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 exclaimed | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 has | punct |
| 9 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 has | punct |
| 10 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 exclaimed | conj |
| 11 | grief | grief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 has | obj |
| 12 | disordered | disorder | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 grief | acl |
| 13 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 14 senses | nmod:poss |
| 14 | senses | sens | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 disordered | obj |
| 15 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 exclaimed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | exclaim speech: express | past | Noble cavalier | Pelistes = peliste | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent they=Topic | ||||
| 2 | have in a quote | present | Noble cavalier not said here | grief | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grief=Patient | ||||
| 3 | disorder in a quote | participle | grief not said here | thy senses | tree rules |
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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