Legends of the conquest of Spain, Muza Arrives At Toledo.—interview Between Him and Taric., sentence 24
“I have done the best I could to serve God and the caliph,” said he, emphatically; “my conscience acquits me, and I trust my sovereign will do the same.”
Who acts: eye, conscience, sovereign · What happens: do, serve, say, acquit, trust · To what, where: best, God, eye, same · 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 (eye, conscience, sovereign), 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 | _ | 4 done | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 done | nsubj |
| 3 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 done | aux |
| 4 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 17 said | ccomp |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 best | det |
| 6 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 4 done | obj |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 could | nsubj |
| 8 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 done | obl:agent |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 serve | mark |
| 10 | serve | serve | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 done | advcl |
| 11 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 serve | obj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 caliph | cc |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 caliph | det |
| 14 | caliph | caliph | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 God | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 done | punct |
| 16 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 done | punct |
| 17 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 said | nsubj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 emphatically | punct |
| 20 | emphatically | emphatically | ADV | _ | 17 said | advmod |
| 21 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 25 acquits | punct |
| 22 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 25 acquits | punct |
| 23 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 conscience | nmod:poss |
| 24 | conscience | conscience | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 acquits | nsubj |
| 25 | acquits | acquit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 said | parataxis |
| 26 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 25 acquits | obj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 trust | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 trust | cc |
| 29 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 30 trust | nsubj |
| 30 | trust | trust | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 acquits | conj |
| 31 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 sovereign | nmod:poss |
| 32 | sovereign | sovereign | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 do | nsubj |
| 33 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 34 do | aux |
| 34 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 30 trust | ccomp |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 same | det |
| 36 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 do | obj |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 25 acquits | punct |
| 38 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 25 acquits | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do in a quote | present · perfect | eye | the best | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent good=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | serve in a quote | to-infinitive | eye not said here | God and the caliph | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent god=Attribute | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | eye | emphatically property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 4 | acquit in a quote | present | my conscience | eye | vn free-10.6.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Causer i=Source | ||||
| 5 | trust in a quote | present | eye | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 6 | do in a quote | future | my sovereign | the same | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent same=Eventuality |
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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