Legends of the conquest of Spain, Expedition of Abdalasis Against Seville and the “land of Tadmir.”, sentence 60
What care I, think ye, where ye lay my body when I am dead?
Who acts: ye, I · What happens: care, think, lie, be · To what, where: ye, body
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 (ye, 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 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 2 care | nsubj |
| 2 | care | care | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 care | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 think | punct |
| 5 | think | think | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 care | parataxis |
| 6 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 5 think | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 lay | punct |
| 8 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 10 lay | advmod |
| 9 | ye | ye | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 10 lay | nsubj |
| 10 | lay | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 think | conj |
| 11 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 body | nmod:poss |
| 12 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 lay | obj |
| 13 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 16 dead | advmod |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 dead | nsubj |
| 15 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 dead | cop |
| 16 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 lay | advcl |
| 17 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 care | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | care | present | What nsubj; I nsubj | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | think speech: other | infinitive | ye | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot ye=Theme | |||||
| 3 | lie | past | ye | my body | vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location body=Theme | ||||
| 4 | is | present | I | dead 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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