Legends of the conquest of Spain, The Rise of Don Roderick.—his Government., sentence 1
Woe to the ruler who founds his hope of sway on the weakness or corruption of the people!
Who acts: ruler, sway · What happens: found, hope · To what, where: hope, Woe
This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, The Rise of Don Roderick.—his Government.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (ruler, sway), 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 | Woe | woe | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | to | to | ADP | _ | 4 ruler | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 ruler | det |
| 4 | ruler | ruler | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Woe | nmod |
| 5 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 founds | nsubj |
| 6 | founds | found | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 ruler | acl:relcl |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 hope | nmod:poss |
| 8 | hope | hope | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 founds | obj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 sway | case |
| 10 | sway | sway | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 hope | nmod |
| 11 | on | on | ADP | _ | 13 weakness | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 weakness | det |
| 13 | weakness | weakness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 sway | nmod |
| 14 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 15 corruption | cc |
| 15 | corruption | corruption | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 weakness | conj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 people | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 people | det |
| 18 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 corruption | nmod |
| 19 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 1 Woe | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | found | present | the ruler | his hope of sway on the weakness or corruption of the people | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hope=Patient | ||||
| 3 | hope | sway on the weakness or corruption of the people | nom hope «feeling intransitive»: of=agent |
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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