Legends of the conquest of Spain, Expedition of Abdalasis Against Seville and the “land of Tadmir.”, sentence 55
“I trust that thou art virtually my son; let us hasten to retreat before it is too late.”
Who acts: veteran, us, enemy · What happens: trust, let, hasten, retreat, be · To what, where: that, us
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 (veteran, us, 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 | _ | 3 trust | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 trust | nsubj |
| 3 | trust | trust | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 trust | obj |
| 5 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 6 art | nsubj |
| 6 | art | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 trust | conj |
| 7 | virtually | virtually | ADV | _ | 6 art | advmod |
| 8 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 son | nmod:poss |
| 9 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 art | obj |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 let | punct |
| 11 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 trust | conj |
| 12 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 let | obj |
| 13 | hasten | hasten | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 let | xcomp |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 retreat | mark |
| 15 | retreat | retreat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 hasten | xcomp |
| 16 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 20 late | mark |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 late | nsubj |
| 18 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 late | cop |
| 19 | too | too | ADV | _ | 20 late | advmod |
| 20 | late | late | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 retreat | advcl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 trust | punct |
| 22 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 trust | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | trust in a quote | present | the veteran = veteran | that | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Theme | ||||
| 2 | let in a quote | infinitive | the veteran = veteran not said here | us | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | hasten in a quote | infinitive | us not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | retreat in a quote | to-infinitive | us not said here | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||||
| 5 | is in a quote | present | enemy | late property | 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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