Legends of the conquest of Spain, Meeting Between the Patriot Pelistes and the Traitor Julian., sentence 32
“I know thee for a base impostor!” cried Pelistes.
Who acts: I · What happens: know, cry · To what, where: thee · 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 (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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 know | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 know | nsubj |
| 3 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 cried | parataxis |
| 4 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 3 know | obj |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 impostor | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 impostor | det |
| 7 | base | base | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 impostor | compound |
| 8 | impostor | impostor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 know | obl |
| 9 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 know | punct |
| 10 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 know | punct |
| 11 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | Pelistes | Pelistes | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 cried | flat |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know in a quote | present | I | thee | for a base impostor | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer thou=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | cry speech: express | past | Pelistes flat | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=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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