Legends of the conquest of Spain, Expedition of Abdalasis Against Seville and the “land of Tadmir.”, sentence 59
“A pestilence on ye both,” cried Theodomir, “for a brace of misbegotten madmen!
Who acts: pestilence · What happens: cry · To what, where: Theodomir
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 (pestilence), 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 | _ | 9 cried | punct |
| 2 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 pestilence | det |
| 3 | pestilence | pestilence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 cried | nsubj |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 5 ye | case |
| 5 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 3 pestilence | nmod |
| 6 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 pestilence | nmod:unmarked |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 pestilence | punct |
| 8 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 pestilence | punct |
| 9 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | Theodomir | Theodomir | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 cried | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 brace | punct |
| 12 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 brace | punct |
| 13 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 brace | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 brace | det |
| 15 | brace | brace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 cried | obl |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 madmen | case |
| 17 | misbegotten | misbegotten | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 madmen | amod |
| 18 | madmen | madman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 brace | nmod |
| 19 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 9 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cry speech: express | past | a pestilence on ye both | Theodomir | for a brace of misbegotten madmen | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent theodomir=Topic |
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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