Legends of the conquest of Spain, Expedition of Abdalasis Against Seville and the “land of Tadmir.”, sentence 51
Fear nothing; am not I your son, and would I not die to defend you?”
Who acts: nothing, I · What happens: not be, not die, defend · To what, where: son, you
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 (nothing, I), 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 | Fear | fear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 nothing | compound |
| 2 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 8 son | nsubj |
| 3 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 2 nothing | punct |
| 4 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 son | cop |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 son | advmod |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 son | nsubj |
| 7 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 son | nmod:poss |
| 8 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 die | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 die | cc |
| 11 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 die | aux |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 die | nsubj |
| 13 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 die | advmod |
| 14 | die | die | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 son | acl:relcl |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 defend | mark |
| 16 | defend | defend | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 die | advcl |
| 17 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 defend | obj |
| 18 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 8 son | punct |
| 19 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 son | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is a | present | nothing | your son | I nsubj; your nmod:poss | tree rules | |||
| 2 | not die | would | I | your son not said here | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | defend | to-infinitive | I not said here | you | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Beneficiary |
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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