Legends of the conquest of Spain, Chapter XIV., sentence 23
If you want proof, demand of these Christian cavaliers here present, most of whom I captured; demand of those Moslem warriors who aided me in my battles.”
Who acts: you, I, Moslem warriors, my · What happens: want, capture, aid, demand, battle · To what, where: proof, me, battles, demand, Christian cavaliers, Moslem warriors
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 (you, I, Moslem warriors, 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 3 want | mark |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 want | nsubj |
| 3 | want | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 demand | advcl |
| 4 | proof | proof | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 want | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 want | punct |
| 6 | demand | demand | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 cavaliers | case |
| 8 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 10 cavaliers | det |
| 9 | Christian | Christian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 cavaliers | amod |
| 10 | cavaliers | cavalier | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 demand | nmod |
| 11 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 10 cavaliers | advmod |
| 12 | present | present | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 cavaliers | amod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 most | punct |
| 14 | most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 10 cavaliers | appos |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 whom | case |
| 16 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 most | nmod |
| 17 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 captured | nsubj |
| 18 | captured | capture | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 whom | acl:relcl |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 demand | punct |
| 20 | demand | demand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 demand | appos |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 warriors | case |
| 22 | those | that | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 24 warriors | det |
| 23 | Moslem | Moslem | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 warriors | amod |
| 24 | warriors | warrior | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 demand | nmod |
| 25 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 26 aided | nsubj |
| 26 | aided | aid | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 warriors | acl:relcl |
| 27 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 26 aided | obj |
| 28 | in | in | ADP | _ | 30 battles | case |
| 29 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 battles | nmod:poss |
| 30 | battles | battle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 aided | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 20 demand | punct |
| 32 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 demand | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | want | present | you | proof | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot proof=Theme | ||||
| 2 | capture | past | I | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | aid | past | that Moslem warriors | me | my battles | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Beneficiary | |||
| 5 | demand | this Christian cavaliers | nom demand «communication transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 6 | demand | that Moslem warriors | nom demand «communication transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 7 | battle | my | nom battle «act 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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