Legends of the conquest of Spain, Expedition of Abdalasis Against Seville and the “land of Tadmir.”, sentence 50
“Father,” said the eldest son, “it is too late to retreat; remain here with the reserve, while my brother and I advance.
Who acts: Father, retreat, brother · What happens: say, be, retreat, remain, advance · To what, where: eldest son · 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 (Father, retreat, brother), 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 | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 2 | Father | Father | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 said | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Father | punct |
| 4 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Father | punct |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 son | det |
| 7 | eldest | eld | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 8 son | amod |
| 8 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 said | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 late | punct |
| 10 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 late | punct |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 late | nsubj |
| 12 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 late | cop |
| 13 | too | too | ADV | _ | 14 late | advmod |
| 14 | late | late | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 son | acl:relcl |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 retreat | mark |
| 16 | retreat | retreat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 late | advcl |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 remain | punct |
| 18 | remain | remain | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 said | ccomp |
| 19 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 18 remain | advmod |
| 20 | with | with | ADP | _ | 22 reserve | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 reserve | det |
| 22 | reserve | reserve | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 remain | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 advance | punct |
| 24 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 29 advance | mark |
| 25 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 brother | nmod:poss |
| 26 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 advance | nsubj |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 I | cc |
| 28 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 26 brother | conj |
| 29 | advance | advance | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 said | conj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Father | the eldest son | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is in a quote | present | retreat | the eldest son not said here | late property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | retreat in a quote | to-infinitive | retreat not said here | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||||
| 4 | remain in a quote | infinitive | here | with the reserve | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | advance in a quote | present | my brother I | vn caused_calibratable_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient |
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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