Legends of the conquest of Spain, Meeting Between the Patriot Pelistes and the Traitor Julian., sentence 30
“Pelistes,” said he, “what means this mockery?
Who acts: Pelistes · What happens: say, mean · To what, where: mockery · 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 (Pelistes), 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 | _ | 2 Pelistes | punct |
| 2 | Pelistes | Pelistes | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 said | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Pelistes | punct |
| 4 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Pelistes | punct |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 means | nsubj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 means | punct |
| 8 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 means | punct |
| 9 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 10 means | nsubj |
| 10 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 said | ccomp |
| 11 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 12 mockery | det |
| 12 | mockery | mockery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 means | obj |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: ask | past | Pelistes | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | mean in a quote | present | Pelistes | this mockery | what nsubj | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mockery=Topic |
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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