Legends of the conquest of Spain, Expedition of Abdalasis Against Seville and the “land of Tadmir.”, sentence 5
“My lord and father,” said he, “I blush to hear your warriors recount the toils and dangers they have passed, while I have done nothing to entitle me to their companionship.
Who acts: lord, warriors, toils · What happens: say, blush, hear, recount, pass, do · To what, where: toils, warriors, nothing, lord · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (lord, warriors, toils), 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 said | punct |
| 2 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 lord | nmod:poss |
| 3 | lord | lord | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 said | nsubj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 father | cc |
| 5 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 lord | conj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 lord | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 lord | punct |
| 8 | said | say | 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 said | nsubj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 blush | punct |
| 11 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 blush | punct |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 blush | nsubj |
| 13 | blush | blush | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 said | conj |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 hear | mark |
| 15 | hear | hear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 blush | xcomp |
| 16 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 warriors | nmod:poss |
| 17 | warriors | warrior | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 recount | nsubj |
| 18 | recount | recount | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 hear | ccomp |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 toils | det |
| 20 | toils | toil | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 recount | obj |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 dangers | cc |
| 22 | dangers | danger | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 toils | conj |
| 23 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 passed | nsubj:pass |
| 24 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 passed | aux |
| 25 | passed | pass | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 toils | acl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 done | punct |
| 27 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 30 done | mark |
| 28 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 30 done | nsubj |
| 29 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 30 done | aux |
| 30 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 18 recount | advcl |
| 31 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 30 done | obj |
| 32 | to | to | PART | _ | 33 entitle | mark |
| 33 | entitle | entitle | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 31 nothing | acl |
| 34 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 33 entitle | obj |
| 35 | to | to | ADP | _ | 37 companionship | case |
| 36 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 37 companionship | nmod:poss |
| 37 | companionship | companionship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 entitle | obl |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | My lord and father | pause nsubj | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | blush in a quote | present | My lord and father = lord | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | hear in a quote | to-infinitive | My lord and father = lord not said here | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | recount speech: other in a quote | present | your warriors | the toils and dangers | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent toil=Topic | ||||
| 5 | pass in a quote | present · perfect · passive | the toils and dangers not said here | warriors = warrior | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: subject=Trajectory | ||||
| 6 | do in a quote | present · perfect | My lord and father = lord | nothing | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Eventuality | ||||
| 7 | entitle in a quote | to-infinitive | My lord and father = lord not said here | My lord and father = lord | to warriors's companionship | 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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