Legends of the conquest of Spain, Muza Arrives At Toledo.—interview Between Him and Taric., sentence 19
“What blind confidence in fortune hast thou shown,” said he, “in overrunning such a country, and assailing such powerful cities with thy scanty force!
Who acts: blind confidence, thou, confidence · What happens: have, show, say, overrun, assail · To what, where: thou, country, such powerful cities · 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 (blind confidence, thou, confidence), 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 | _ | 12 said | punct |
| 2 | What | what | DET | PronType=Int | 4 confidence | det |
| 3 | blind | blind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 confidence | amod |
| 4 | confidence | confidence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 hast | nsubj |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 fortune | case |
| 6 | fortune | fortune | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 confidence | nmod |
| 7 | hast | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 said | ccomp |
| 8 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 7 hast | obj |
| 9 | shown | show | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 hast | xcomp |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 hast | punct |
| 11 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 hast | punct |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 said | nsubj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 overrunning | punct |
| 15 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 overrunning | punct |
| 16 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 17 overrunning | mark |
| 17 | overrunning | overrun | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 said | advcl |
| 18 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 20 country | det:predet |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 country | det |
| 20 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 overrunning | obj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 assailing | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 assailing | cc |
| 23 | assailing | assail | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 17 overrunning | conj |
| 24 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 cities | amod |
| 25 | powerful | powerful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 cities | amod |
| 26 | cities | city | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 assailing | obj |
| 27 | with | with | ADP | _ | 30 force | case |
| 28 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 30 force | nmod:poss |
| 29 | scanty | scanty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 force | amod |
| 30 | force | force | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 assailing | obl |
| 31 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have in a quote | present | what blind confidence in fortune | thou | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | show in a quote | participle | thou not said here | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | say speech: express | past | confidence | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | overrun in a quote | gerund | confidence not said here | such country | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | assail in a quote | gerund | confidence not said here | such powerful cities | with thy scanty force | vn attack-60.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent city=Patient |
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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