Legends of the conquest of Spain, Conduct of Abdalasis As Emir of Spain., sentence 13
Follow these counsels, O son of my affections, and thou shalt live secure.”
Who acts: you, thou · What happens: follow, live · To what, where: counsels
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 (you, thou), 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 | Follow | follow | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 3 counsels | det |
| 3 | counsels | counsel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Follow | obj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 son | punct |
| 5 | O | of | ADP | Abbr=Yes | 6 son | case |
| 6 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Follow | parataxis |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 affections | case |
| 8 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 affections | nmod:poss |
| 9 | affections | affection | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 son | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 live | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 live | cc |
| 12 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 14 live | nsubj |
| 13 | shalt | shall | AUX | Style=Arch VerbForm=Fin | 14 live | aux |
| 14 | live | live | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Follow | conj |
| 15 | secure | secure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 live | xcomp |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Follow | punct |
| 17 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Follow | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | follow | imperative | you not said here | this counsels | son of my affections parataxis | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent counsel=Theme | |||
| 2 | live | shall | thou | secure property | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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