Legends of the conquest of Spain, Chapter XIV., sentence 37
I care not for wealth, I care not for life, but let me not be deprived of that honour which God has bestowed upon me!”
Who acts: I, me · What happens: not care, let, not deprive, bestow · To what, where: me, honour
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 (I, me), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 care | nsubj |
| 2 | care | care | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 2 care | advmod |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 5 wealth | case |
| 5 | wealth | wealth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 care | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 care | punct |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 care | nsubj |
| 8 | care | care | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 care | conj |
| 9 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 care | advmod |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 life | case |
| 11 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 care | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 let | punct |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 let | cc |
| 14 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 care | parataxis |
| 15 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 let | obj |
| 16 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 18 deprived | advmod |
| 17 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 18 deprived | aux:pass |
| 18 | deprived | deprive | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 let | xcomp |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 honour | case |
| 20 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 21 honour | det |
| 21 | honour | honour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 deprived | obl |
| 22 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 25 bestowed | nsubj:pass |
| 23 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 bestowed | nsubj |
| 24 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 bestowed | aux |
| 25 | bestowed | bestow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 honour | acl:relcl |
| 26 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 27 me | case |
| 27 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 25 bestowed | obl |
| 28 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 care | punct |
| 29 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 care | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not care | present | I | for wealth | vn caring-75.2-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent for wealth=Theme | ||||
| 2 | not care | present | I | for life | vn caring-75.2-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent for life=Theme | ||||
| 3 | let | infinitive | me | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | not deprive | infinitive · passive | me not said here | of that honour | vn deprive-10.6.2 «NP V NP PP.theme»: of honour=Theme | ||||
| 5 | bestow | present · perfect · passive | that honour | upon me; God nsubj | 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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