Legends of the conquest of Spain, Muza Arrives At Toledo.—interview Between Him and Taric., sentence 26
Such a general is unworthy to be intrusted with the fate of armies.”
Who acts: general · What happens: be, intrust, fate · To what, where: armies
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 (general), 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 | Such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 3 general | det:predet |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 general | det |
| 3 | general | general | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 unworthy | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 unworthy | cop |
| 5 | unworthy | unworthy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 intrusted | mark |
| 7 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 8 intrusted | aux:pass |
| 8 | intrusted | intrust | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 unworthy | advcl |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 fate | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 fate | det |
| 11 | fate | fate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 intrusted | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 armies | case |
| 13 | armies | army | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 fate | nmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 unworthy | punct |
| 15 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 unworthy | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | such general | unworthy property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | intrust | to-infinitive · passive | such general not said here | with the fate of armies | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | fate | armies | nom fate «event transitive»: of=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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