Legends of the conquest of Spain, Conduct of Abdalasis As Emir of Spain., sentence 16
“What means my father,” said he, “in cautioning me against treachery and treason?
Who acts: father · What happens: mean, say, caution · To what, where: me · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (father), 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 | _ | 3 means | punct |
| 2 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 means | nsubj |
| 3 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 father | nmod:poss |
| 5 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 said | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 father | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 father | punct |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 means | conj |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 cautioning | nsubj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 cautioning | punct |
| 11 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 cautioning | punct |
| 12 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 13 cautioning | mark |
| 13 | cautioning | caution | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 said | ccomp |
| 14 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 cautioning | obj |
| 15 | against | against | ADP | _ | 16 treachery | case |
| 16 | treachery | treachery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 cautioning | obl |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 treason | cc |
| 18 | treason | treason | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 treachery | conj |
| 19 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 means | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean in a quote | present | What nsubj | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | say speech: ask | past | my father nsubj | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | caution speech: other in a quote | gerund | father | me | against treachery and treason | vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP PP.topic»: agent=Agent i=Recipient against treachery=Topic |
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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