Legends of the conquest of Spain, Chapter XIV., sentence 16
“Commander of the faithful!” said he, “examine this precious table, if any part be wanting.”
Who acts: Commander, part · What happens: say, examine, want · To what, where: precious table · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Chapter XIV.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Commander, part), 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 | _ | 2 Commander | punct |
| 2 | Commander | commander | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 said | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 faithful | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 faithful | det |
| 5 | faithful | faithful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 Commander | nmod |
| 6 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 Commander | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Commander | punct |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 examine | nsubj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 examine | punct |
| 11 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 examine | punct |
| 12 | examine | examine | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 said | ccomp |
| 13 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 15 table | det |
| 14 | precious | precious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 table | amod |
| 15 | table | table | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 examine | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 wanting | punct |
| 17 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 21 wanting | mark |
| 18 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 19 part | det |
| 19 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 wanting | nsubj |
| 20 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 21 wanting | aux |
| 21 | wanting | want | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 examine | advcl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
| 23 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Commander of the faithful | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | examine in a quote | infinitive | Commander | this precious table | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent table=Theme | ||||
| 3 | want a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | infinitive · progressive | any part | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot |
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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