Legends of the conquest of Spain, Muza Arrives At Toledo.—interview Between Him and Taric., sentence 29
His only words were, “The caliph will do me justice!”
Who acts: only words, Taric · What happens: do, word · To what, where: justice, sovereign
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 (only words, Taric), 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 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 words | nmod:poss |
| 2 | only | only | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 words | amod |
| 3 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 do | nsubj |
| 4 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 do | aux |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 do | punct |
| 6 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 do | punct |
| 7 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 caliph | det |
| 8 | caliph | caliph | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 do | nsubj |
| 9 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 do | aux |
| 10 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 11 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 do | iobj |
| 12 | justice | justice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 do | obj |
| 13 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 10 do | punct |
| 14 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 do | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do in a quote | past | Taric's only words | justice | sovereign | the caliph nsubj | tree rules | ||
| 2 | word | Taric | nom word «communication 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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