Legends of the conquest of Spain, Expedition of Abdalasis Against Seville and the “land of Tadmir.”, sentence 44
“Glory is a prize one may fight for abroad, but safety is the object when the enemy is at the door.”
Who acts: Glory, prize one, safety, enemy · What happens: be, fight · To what, where: prize one, object, door
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 (Glory, prize one, safety, enemy), 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 fight | punct |
| 2 | Glory | glory | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 one | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 one | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 one | det |
| 5 | prize | prize | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 one | compound |
| 6 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 fight | nsubj |
| 7 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 fight | aux |
| 8 | fight | fight | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 abroad | case |
| 10 | abroad | abroad | ADV | _ | 8 fight | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 object | punct |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 object | cc |
| 13 | safety | safety | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 object | nsubj |
| 14 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 object | cop |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 object | det |
| 16 | object | object | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 fight | obl |
| 17 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 23 door | advmod |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 enemy | det |
| 19 | enemy | enemy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 door | nsubj |
| 20 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 door | cop |
| 21 | at | at | ADP | _ | 23 door | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 door | det |
| 23 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 object | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 fight | punct |
| 25 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 fight | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | Glory | a prize one | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | fight in a quote | may | a prize one | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is a in a quote | present | safety | the object | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | is in a quote | present | the enemy | the door | tree rules |
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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