Legends of the conquest of Spain, Conduct of Abdalasis As Emir of Spain., sentence 17
Does he think my nature so base that it could descend to such means?”
Who acts: father, nature, such · What happens: think, descend, mean · To what, where: nature
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, nature, such), 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 | Does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 think | aux |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 think | nsubj |
| 3 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 nature | nmod:poss |
| 5 | nature | nature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 think | obj |
| 6 | so | so | ADV | _ | 7 base | advmod |
| 7 | base | base | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 think | obl |
| 8 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 11 descend | mark |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 descend | nsubj |
| 10 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 descend | aux |
| 11 | descend | descend | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 think | advcl |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 means | case |
| 13 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP | 14 means | nsubj |
| 14 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 descend | obl |
| 15 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 think | punct |
| 16 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 think | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | present · do-support | father | my nature | base obl | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot nature=Theme | |||
| 2 | descend | could | nature | vn meander-47.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | mean | present | such | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent |
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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