Legends of the conquest of Spain, Conduct of Abdalasis As Emir of Spain., sentence 8
The company of traitors put far from thee; for how canst thou be certain that he who has proved false to others will prove true to thee?
Who acts: company, thou, others · What happens: put, be, prove · To what, where: 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 (company, thou, others), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 company | det |
| 2 | company | company | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 put | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 traitors | case |
| 4 | traitors | traitor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 company | nmod |
| 5 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 5 put | advmod |
| 7 | from | from | ADP | _ | 8 thee | case |
| 8 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 5 put | obl |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 certain | punct |
| 10 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 15 certain | mark |
| 11 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 15 certain | advmod |
| 12 | canst | can | AUX | Style=Arch VerbForm=Fin | 15 certain | aux |
| 13 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 15 certain | nsubj |
| 14 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 15 certain | cop |
| 15 | certain | certain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 put | conj |
| 16 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 20 proved | mark |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 proved | nsubj |
| 18 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 proved | nsubj |
| 19 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 proved | aux |
| 20 | proved | prove | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 15 certain | advcl |
| 21 | false | false | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 proved | xcomp |
| 22 | to | to | SCONJ | _ | 25 prove | mark |
| 23 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 prove | nsubj |
| 24 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 prove | aux |
| 25 | prove | prove | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 proved | advcl |
| 26 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 prove | xcomp |
| 27 | to | to | ADP | _ | 28 thee | case |
| 28 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 26 true | obl |
| 29 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 put | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put | present | the company of traitors | thee | far property | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | is | can | thou | certain property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | prove | present · perfect | company | who nsubj; false property | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | prove | future | others | true property | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: 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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