Legends of the conquest of Spain, Muza Arrives At Toledo.—interview Between Him and Taric., sentence 10
“I commanded thee to await my arrival with reinforcements, but thou hast rashly overrun the country, endangering the loss of our armies and the ruin of our cause.”
Who acts: Muza, thou, my, our · What happens: command, await, have, endanger, arrive, ruin · To what, where: thee, arrival, loss, cause · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Muza Arrives At Toledo.—interview Between Him and Taric.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Muza, thou, my, our), 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 commanded | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 commanded | nsubj |
| 3 | commanded | command | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 3 commanded | obj |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 await | mark |
| 6 | await | await | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 commanded | xcomp |
| 7 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 arrival | nmod:poss |
| 8 | arrival | arrival | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 await | obj |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 reinforcements | case |
| 10 | reinforcements | reinforcement | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 await | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 hast | punct |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 hast | cc |
| 13 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 14 hast | nsubj |
| 14 | hast | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 commanded | conj |
| 15 | rashly | rashly | ADV | _ | 14 hast | advmod |
| 16 | overrun | overrun | ADP | _ | 18 country | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 country | det |
| 18 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 hast | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 endangering | punct |
| 20 | endangering | endanger | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 hast | advcl |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 loss | det |
| 22 | loss | loss | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 endangering | obj |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 armies | case |
| 24 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 armies | nmod:poss |
| 25 | armies | army | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 loss | nmod |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 ruin | cc |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 ruin | det |
| 28 | ruin | ruin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 armies | conj |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 cause | case |
| 30 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 31 cause | nmod:poss |
| 31 | cause | cause | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 ruin | nmod |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 commanded | punct |
| 33 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 commanded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | command in a quote | past | Muza | thee | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent thou=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | await not said to happen, in a quote | to-infinitive | Muza not said here | my arrival | with reinforcements | tree rules | |||
| 3 | have in a quote | present | thou | overrun the country; rashly property | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | endanger in a quote | gerund | thou not said here | the loss of our armies and the ruin of our cause | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | arrive in a quote | my | nom arrival «act intransitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 6 | ruin in a quote | our cause | nom ruin «state transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 7 | cause in a quote | our | nom cause «event transitive»: poss=agent |
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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