Legends of the conquest of Spain, Conduct of Abdalasis As Emir of Spain., sentence 20
What love canst thou expect from men who have been unnatural to their kindred; and what loyalty from wretches who have betrayed their country?”
Who acts: thou, men, wretches · What happens: be, expect, loyalty, betray · To what, where: wretches, country
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, men, wretches), 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 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 5 expect | obj |
| 2 | love | love | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 What | cop |
| 3 | canst | can | AUX | Style=Arch VerbForm=Fin | 5 expect | aux |
| 4 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 5 expect | nsubj |
| 5 | expect | expect | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | from | from | ADP | _ | 7 men | case |
| 7 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 expect | obl |
| 8 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 unnatural | nsubj |
| 9 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 unnatural | aux |
| 10 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 11 unnatural | cop |
| 11 | unnatural | unnatural | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 men | acl:relcl |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 kindred | case |
| 13 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 kindred | nmod:poss |
| 14 | kindred | kindred | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 unnatural | obl |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 loyalty | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 loyalty | cc |
| 17 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 18 loyalty | nsubj |
| 18 | loyalty | loyalty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 expect | conj |
| 19 | from | from | ADP | _ | 20 wretches | case |
| 20 | wretches | wretch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 loyalty | nmod |
| 21 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 23 betrayed | nsubj |
| 22 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 betrayed | aux |
| 23 | betrayed | betray | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 20 wretches | acl:relcl |
| 24 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 country | nmod:poss |
| 25 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 betrayed | obj |
| 26 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 expect | punct |
| 27 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 expect | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | expect | can | thou | from men | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | is | present · perfect | men | to men's kindred; unnatural property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | loyalty | wretches | what nsubj | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | betray | present · perfect | wretches | wretches's country | 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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