Legends of the conquest of Spain, Chapter XIII., sentence 50
“Never, by Allah!” cried Taric with honest warmth, “never did a banner of mine fly the field.
Who acts: Allah · What happens: cry, fly · To what, where: Taric, field · 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 (Allah), 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 | _ | 8 cried | punct |
| 2 | Never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 5 Allah | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Never | punct |
| 4 | by | by | ADP | _ | 5 Allah | case |
| 5 | Allah | Allah | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 cried | nsubj |
| 6 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 5 Allah | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 Allah | punct |
| 8 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | Taric | Taric | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 cried | obj |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 warmth | case |
| 11 | honest | honest | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 warmth | amod |
| 12 | warmth | warmth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 cried | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 did | punct |
| 14 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 did | punct |
| 15 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 16 did | advmod |
| 16 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 fly | aux |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 banner | det |
| 18 | banner | banner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 did | obj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 mine | case |
| 20 | mine | my | PRON | Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 banner | nmod |
| 21 | fly | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 cried | conj |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 field | det |
| 23 | field | field | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 fly | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cry speech: express | past | Allah | Taric | with honest warmth | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent taric=Topic | |||
| 2 | fly in a quote | past · do-support | Allah not said here | the field | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location field=Theme |
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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