Legends of the conquest of Spain, Muza Arrives At Toledo.—interview Between Him and Taric., sentence 21
All thy success has been owing to mere luck, not to judgment nor generalship.”
Who acts: success · What happens: owe · To what, where: mere luck
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 (success), 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 | All | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 success | det |
| 2 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 3 success | nmod:poss |
| 3 | success | success | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 owing | nsubj |
| 4 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 owing | aux |
| 5 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 6 owing | aux |
| 6 | owing | owe | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 luck | case |
| 8 | mere | mere | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 luck | amod |
| 9 | luck | luck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 owing | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 judgment | punct |
| 11 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 judgment | advmod |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 judgment | case |
| 13 | judgment | judgment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 owing | parataxis |
| 14 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 15 generalship | cc |
| 15 | generalship | generalship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 judgment | conj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 judgment | punct |
| 17 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 judgment | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | owe | present · perfect · progressive | thy success | to mere luck goal; judgment nor generalship parataxis | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent to luck=Goal |
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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