Legends of the conquest of Spain, Meeting Between the Patriot Pelistes and the Traitor Julian., sentence 24
Behold thy friend living, and standing before thee, and yet thou dost not know him!
Who acts: friend, thou · What happens: live, stand, not know · To what, where: thee, friend
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 (friend, thou), 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 | Behold | behold | INTJ | _ | 4 living | discourse |
| 2 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 3 friend | nmod:poss |
| 3 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 living | nsubj |
| 4 | living | live | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 standing | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 standing | cc |
| 7 | standing | stand | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 living | conj |
| 8 | before | before | ADP | _ | 9 thee | case |
| 9 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 7 standing | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 know | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 know | cc |
| 12 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 16 know | advmod |
| 13 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 16 know | nsubj |
| 14 | dost | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 know | aux |
| 15 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 16 know | advmod |
| 16 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 living | parataxis |
| 17 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 know | obj |
| 18 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 living | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | gerund | thy friend | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | stand | gerund | thy friend not said here | thee | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent before thou=Location | ||||
| 3 | not know | present · do-support | thou | friend | yet | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus |
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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