Legends of the conquest of Spain, Expedition of Abdalasis Against Seville and the “land of Tadmir.”, sentence 18
“Behold, my son,” exclaimed he, “an enterprise worthy of thy ambition!
Who acts: son, thy · What happens: exclaim, ambition · To what, where: Seville
This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Expedition of Abdalasis Against Seville and the “land of Tadmir.”. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (son, thy), 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 | _ | 8 exclaimed | punct |
| 2 | Behold | behold | INTJ | _ | 5 son | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 son | punct |
| 4 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 son | nmod:poss |
| 5 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 exclaimed | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 son | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 son | punct |
| 8 | exclaimed | exclaim | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 exclaimed | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 worthy | punct |
| 11 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 worthy | punct |
| 12 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 worthy | det |
| 13 | enterprise | enterprise | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 worthy | amod |
| 14 | worthy | worthy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 exclaimed | obl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 ambition | case |
| 16 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 17 ambition | nmod:poss |
| 17 | ambition | ambition | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 worthy | nmod |
| 18 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 8 exclaimed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | exclaim speech: express | past | my son | Seville | a enterprise worthy of thy ambition obl | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent he=Topic | |||
| 2 | ambition in a quote | thy | nom ambition «feeling intransitive»: poss=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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