Legends of the conquest of Spain, Muza Arrives At Toledo.—interview Between Him and Taric., sentence 9
“Why hast thou disobeyed my orders?” said he.
Who acts: thou, Muza, my · What happens: have, disobey, say, order · To what, where: orders · 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 (thou, Muza, my), 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 | _ | 3 hast | punct |
| 2 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 hast | advmod |
| 3 | hast | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 said | ccomp |
| 4 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 5 disobeyed | nsubj |
| 5 | disobeyed | disobey | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 hast | ccomp |
| 6 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 orders | nmod:poss |
| 7 | orders | order | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 disobeyed | obj |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 hast | punct |
| 9 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 hast | punct |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 said | nsubj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have in a quote | present | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | disobey in a quote | past | thou | my orders | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | say speech: ask | past | Muza | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | order in a quote | my | nom order «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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