Legends of the conquest of Spain, Chapter XIV., sentence 36
“I have been a faithful servant to the throne from my youth upwards,” said he, “and now am I degraded in my old age.
Who acts: faithful servant, servant · What happens: be, say · To what, where: faithful servant, old age · 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 (faithful servant, servant), 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 | _ | 7 servant | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 servant | nsubj |
| 3 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 servant | aux |
| 4 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 servant | cop |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 servant | det |
| 6 | faithful | faithful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 servant | amod |
| 7 | servant | servant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 said | nsubj |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 throne | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 throne | det |
| 10 | throne | throne | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 servant | nmod |
| 11 | from | from | ADP | _ | 13 youth | case |
| 12 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 youth | nmod:poss |
| 13 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 throne | nmod |
| 14 | upwards | upwards | ADV | _ | 13 youth | advmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 servant | punct |
| 16 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 servant | punct |
| 17 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 degraded | nsubj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 he | punct |
| 20 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 25 degraded | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 degraded | cc |
| 22 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 25 degraded | advmod |
| 23 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 degraded | cop |
| 24 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 25 degraded | nsubj |
| 25 | degraded | degrade | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 said | ccomp |
| 26 | in | in | ADP | _ | 29 age | case |
| 27 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 age | nmod:poss |
| 28 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 age | amod |
| 29 | age | age | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 degraded | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present · perfect | a faithful servant = servant | a faithful servant | to the throne from my youth | tree rules | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | a faithful servant | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | is in a quote | present | servant | in my old age; now | I nsubj; degrade property | tree rules |
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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