Legends of the conquest of Spain, Conduct of Abdalasis As Emir of Spain., sentence 11
If thou shouldst discover any foible of a vicious kind springing up in thy nature, pluck it forth, whatever pang it cost thee.
Who acts: thou, vicious kind, you, pang · What happens: discover, spring up, pluck, cost · To what, where: foible, nature, thee
This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Conduct of Abdalasis As Emir of Spain.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (thou, vicious kind, you, pang), 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 | _ | 4 discover | mark |
| 2 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 4 discover | nsubj |
| 3 | shouldst | should | AUX | Style=Arch VerbForm=Fin | 4 discover | aux |
| 4 | discover | discover | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 pluck | advcl |
| 5 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 6 foible | det |
| 6 | foible | foible | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 discover | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 kind | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 kind | det |
| 9 | vicious | vicious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 kind | amod |
| 10 | kind | kind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 foible | nmod |
| 11 | springing | spring | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 kind | acl |
| 12 | up | up | ADP | _ | 11 springing | compound:prt |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 nature | case |
| 14 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 15 nature | nmod:poss |
| 15 | nature | nature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 springing | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 pluck | punct |
| 17 | pluck | pluck | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 pluck | obj |
| 19 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 17 pluck | advmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 cost | punct |
| 21 | whatever | whatever | DET | PronType=Int | 22 pang | det |
| 22 | pang | pang | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 cost | nsubj |
| 23 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 cost | nsubj |
| 24 | cost | cost | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 pluck | parataxis |
| 25 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 24 cost | iobj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 pluck | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | discover a condition, not said to happen | should | thou | any foible of a vicious kind | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent foible=Topic | ||||
| 2 | spring up | gerund | a vicious kind not said here | thy nature | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in nature=Location | ||||
| 3 | pluck | imperative | you not said here | foible | forth property | vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient | |||
| 4 | cost | past | whatever pang | thee | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme thou=Value |
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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