Legends of the conquest of Spain, Muza Besieges the City of Merida., sentence 50
Let us defend our city the best way we can; surely we can hold out longer than the life of this greybeard.”
Who acts: you, us, we · What happens: let, defend, hold out · To what, where: us, city
This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Muza Besieges the City of Merida.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, us, we), 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 | Let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 1 Let | obj |
| 3 | defend | defend | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Let | xcomp |
| 4 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 city | nmod:poss |
| 5 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 defend | obj |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 way | det |
| 7 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 8 way | amod |
| 8 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 defend | obl:unmarked |
| 9 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 can | nsubj |
| 10 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 way | acl:relcl |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 hold | punct |
| 12 | surely | surely | ADV | _ | 15 hold | advmod |
| 13 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 hold | nsubj |
| 14 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 hold | aux |
| 15 | hold | hold | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Let | conj |
| 16 | out | out | ADV | _ | 15 hold | advmod |
| 17 | longer | long | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 15 hold | advmod |
| 18 | than | than | ADP | _ | 20 life | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 life | det |
| 20 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 hold | obl |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 greybeard | case |
| 22 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 23 greybeard | det |
| 23 | greybeard | greybeard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 life | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Let | punct |
| 25 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let | imperative | you not said here | us | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | defend | infinitive | us not said here | our city | the best way obl:unmarked | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent city=Beneficiary | |||
| 3 | hold out | can | we | than the life of this greybeard; long, out, surely property | 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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