Legends of the conquest of Spain, Chapter VI., sentence 10

“What I have to reveal,” replied the other, “is for thee alone to hear: command then, I entreat thee, that these men withdraw.”

Who acts: I, thee, men · What happens: have, reveal, reply, be, command, entreat · To what, where: other, thee · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Chapter VI.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, thee, men), 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	_	9 replied	punct
2	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 have	obj
3	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 have	nsubj
4	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 replied	ccomp
5	to	to	PART	_	6 reveal	mark
6	reveal	reveal	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 have	xcomp
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 have	punct
8	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 have	punct
9	replied	reply	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 other	det
11	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 replied	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 hear	punct
13	“	"	PUNCT	_	19 hear	punct
14	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 hear	cop
15	for	for	SCONJ	_	19 hear	mark
16	thee	thou	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	19 hear	nsubj
17	alone	alone	ADV	_	19 hear	advmod
18	to	to	PART	_	19 hear	mark
19	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 replied	parataxis
20	:	:	PUNCT	_	21 command	punct
21	command	command	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 hear	conj
22	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	21 command	advmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 entreat	punct
24	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	25 entreat	nsubj
25	entreat	entreat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 replied	parataxis
26	thee	thou	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	25 entreat	obj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 withdraw	punct
28	that	that	SCONJ	_	31 withdraw	mark
29	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	30 men	det
30	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 withdraw	nsubj
31	withdraw	withdraw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 entreat	conj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 replied	punct
33	”	"	PUNCT	_	9 replied	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	have in a quote	present	I			What obj	tree rules
2	reveal in a quote	to-infinitive	I not said here				vn characterize-29.2-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	reply speech: assert	past		the other			tree rules
4	is in a quote	present	thee			alone, hear property	tree rules
5	command in a quote	infinitive	thee not said here		then		vn supervision-95.2.2-1 «NP V NP.predicate»: agent=Agent
6	entreat in a quote	present	I	thee			vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thou=Recipient
7	withdraw in a quote	present	this men				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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🌲 Legends of the conquest of Spain, Chapter VI., sentence 10

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Legends of the conquest of Spain, Chapter VI., sentence 10