Legends of the conquest of Spain, Chapter XIII., sentence 46
“And the people of Afranc; what sayest thou of them?”
Who acts: people · What happens: say · To what, where: thou · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (people), 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 | _ | 9 sayest | punct |
| 2 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 people | cc |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 people | det |
| 4 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 sayest | nsubj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 Afranc | case |
| 6 | Afranc | Afranc | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 people | nmod |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 9 sayest | punct |
| 8 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 9 sayest | obj |
| 9 | sayest | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 9 sayest | obj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 them | case |
| 12 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 thou | nmod |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 9 sayest | punct |
| 14 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 sayest | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert in a quote | present | the people of Afranc | thou of Moors | what obj | vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent what=Theme thou=Manner |
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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