Legends of the conquest of Spain, Chapter VI., sentence 17
“This shall be thy assurance,” replied the rabbi: “ten of the principal Israelites will come to this tent and remain as hostages.”
Who acts: This, assurance, ten · What happens: be, reply, come, remain · To what, where: assurance, rabbi, tent · 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 (This, assurance, ten), 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 | _ | 6 assurance | punct |
| 2 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 assurance | nsubj |
| 3 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 assurance | aux |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 6 assurance | cop |
| 5 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 6 assurance | nmod:poss |
| 6 | assurance | assurance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 replied | nsubj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 assurance | punct |
| 8 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 assurance | punct |
| 9 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 rabbi | det |
| 11 | rabbi | rabbi | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 replied | obj |
| 12 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 20 come | punct |
| 13 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 ten | punct |
| 14 | ten | ten | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 20 come | nsubj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 Israelites | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 Israelites | det |
| 17 | principal | principal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 Israelites | amod |
| 18 | Israelites | israelite | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 ten | nmod |
| 19 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 come | aux |
| 20 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 replied | parataxis |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 tent | case |
| 22 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 23 tent | det |
| 23 | tent | tent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 come | obl |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 remain | cc |
| 25 | remain | remain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 come | conj |
| 26 | as | as | ADP | _ | 27 hostages | case |
| 27 | hostages | hostage | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 remain | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 20 come | punct |
| 29 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 come | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | shall | This | thy assurance | thy nmod:poss | tree rules | |||
| 2 | reply speech: assert | past | thy assurance | the rabbi | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | come in a quote | future | ten of the principal Israelites | this tent | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to tent=Initial_Location | ||||
| 4 | remain in a quote | present | ten of the principal Israelites not said here | as hostages | vn exist-47.1 «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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