Legends of the conquest of Spain, Meeting Between the Patriot Pelistes and the Traitor Julian., sentence 37
My friend, alas! is dead; and thou art some fiend from hell, which has taken possession of his body to dishonour his memory and render him an abhorrence among men!”
Who acts: friend · What happens: be, take, dishonour, render, possess · To what, where: fiend, memory, abhorrence, friend, body
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), 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 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 friend | nmod:poss |
| 2 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 dead | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 alas | punct |
| 4 | alas | ala | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 friend | conj |
| 5 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 friend | punct |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 dead | cop |
| 7 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 art | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 art | cc |
| 10 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 11 art | nsubj |
| 11 | art | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 dead | parataxis |
| 12 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 13 fiend | det |
| 13 | fiend | fiend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 art | obj |
| 14 | from | from | ADP | _ | 15 hell | case |
| 15 | hell | hell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 fiend | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 taken | punct |
| 17 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 taken | nsubj:pass |
| 18 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 taken | aux |
| 19 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 fiend | acl |
| 20 | possession | possession | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 taken | obj |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 body | case |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 body | nmod:poss |
| 23 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 possession | nmod |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 dishonour | mark |
| 25 | dishonour | dishonour | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 taken | advcl |
| 26 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 memory | nmod:poss |
| 27 | memory | memory | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 dishonour | obj |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 render | cc |
| 29 | render | render | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 art | conj |
| 30 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 render | obj |
| 31 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 32 abhorrence | det |
| 32 | abhorrence | abhorrence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 render | obj |
| 33 | among | among | ADP | _ | 34 men | case |
| 34 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 render | obl |
| 35 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 7 dead | punct |
| 36 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 dead | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | My friend and alas | dead property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | take | present · perfect · passive | some fiend | possession of friend's body obj | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Theme possession=Destination | ||||
| 3 | dishonour | to-infinitive | friend's memory | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus memory=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | render | present | My friend and alas not said here | a abhorrence | friend | among men | vn give-13.1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient abhorrence=Theme | ||
| 5 | possess | friend's body | nom possession «act transitive»: of=patient |
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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