Legends of the conquest of Spain, Chapter XIII., sentence 24
With grief and sorrow do I part from thee; for sure I am it would give me length of days to abide within thy pleasant walls!”
Who acts: I · What happens: do, part, give, abide · To what, where: thee, length, me
This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Chapter XIII.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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 | With | with | ADP | _ | 2 grief | case |
| 2 | grief | grief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 do | obl |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 sorrow | cc |
| 4 | sorrow | sorrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 grief | conj |
| 5 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 part | nsubj |
| 7 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 do | acl:relcl |
| 8 | from | from | ADP | _ | 9 thee | case |
| 9 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 5 do | obl |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 sure | punct |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 sure | case |
| 12 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 do | parataxis |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 give | nsubj |
| 14 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 give | aux |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 give | nsubj |
| 16 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 give | aux |
| 17 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 sure | ccomp |
| 18 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 give | iobj |
| 19 | length | length | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 give | obj |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 days | case |
| 21 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 length | nmod |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 abide | mark |
| 23 | abide | abide | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 length | acl |
| 24 | within | within | ADP | _ | 27 walls | case |
| 25 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 27 walls | nmod:poss |
| 26 | pleasant | pleasant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 walls | amod |
| 27 | walls | wall | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 abide | obl |
| 28 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 5 do | punct |
| 29 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 do | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | present | thee | with grief and sorrow | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | part | I | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | give | would · present | I | length of days | me | part nsubj | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient length=Theme | ||
| 4 | abide | to-infinitive | I not said here | length of days not said here | within thy pleasant walls | tree rules |
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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