Legends of the conquest of Spain, Chapter XIV., sentence 29
“You have vaunted your own deserts,” said he, “and have forgotten the deserts of others; nay, you have sought to debase another who has loyally served his sovereign: the reward of your envy and covetousness be upon your head!”
Who acts: You, CALIPH, your · What happens: vaunt, say, forget, seek, debase, serve · To what, where: own deserts, deserts, served sovereign, envy · 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 (You, CALIPH, your), 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 | _ | 4 vaunted | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 vaunted | nsubj |
| 3 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 vaunted | aux |
| 4 | vaunted | vaunt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 10 said | ccomp |
| 5 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 deserts | nmod:poss |
| 6 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 deserts | amod |
| 7 | deserts | desert | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 vaunted | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 vaunted | punct |
| 9 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 vaunted | punct |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 said | nsubj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 forgotten | punct |
| 13 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 forgotten | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 forgotten | cc |
| 15 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 forgotten | aux |
| 16 | forgotten | forget | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 10 said | conj |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 deserts | det |
| 18 | deserts | desert | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 forgotten | obj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 others | case |
| 20 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 deserts | nmod |
| 21 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 26 sought | punct |
| 22 | nay | nay | INTJ | _ | 26 sought | discourse |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 nay | punct |
| 24 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 26 sought | nsubj |
| 25 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 sought | aux |
| 26 | sought | seek | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 16 forgotten | ccomp |
| 27 | to | to | PART | _ | 28 debase | mark |
| 28 | debase | debase | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 47 head | advcl |
| 29 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 35 sovereign | det |
| 30 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 33 served | nsubj:pass |
| 31 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 33 served | aux |
| 32 | loyally | loyally | ADV | _ | 33 served | advmod |
| 33 | served | serve | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 35 sovereign | amod |
| 34 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 35 sovereign | nmod:poss |
| 35 | sovereign | sovereign | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 debase | obj |
| 36 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 38 reward | punct |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 reward | det |
| 38 | reward | reward | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 sovereign | appos |
| 39 | of | of | ADP | _ | 41 envy | case |
| 40 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 41 envy | nmod:poss |
| 41 | envy | envy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 reward | nmod |
| 42 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 43 covetousness | cc |
| 43 | covetousness | covetousness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 envy | conj |
| 44 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 47 head | cop |
| 45 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 47 head | case |
| 46 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 47 head | nmod:poss |
| 47 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 sought | obj |
| 48 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 47 head | punct |
| 49 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 26 sought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | vaunt in a quote | present · perfect | You | your own deserts | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: express | past | CALIPH | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | forget in a quote | present · perfect | CALIPH not said here | the deserts of others | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | seek in a quote | present · perfect | you | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | debase in a quote | to-infinitive | CALIPH's served sovereign | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent sovereign=Patient | |||||
| 6 | serve in a quote | present · perfect · passive | CALIPH's served sovereign | loyally property | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Attribute | ||||
| 7 | is in a quote | infinitive | upon your head; your nmod:poss | tree rules | |||||
| 8 | reward in a quote | your envy and covetousness | nom reward «event transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 9 | envy in a quote | your | nom envy «feeling 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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