Legends of the conquest of Spain, Loves of Abdalasis and Exilona., sentence 13
“O fairest of women!” said he, “why dost thou weep, and why is thy heart troubled?”
Who acts: fairest, Abdalasis · What happens: say, do, weep, be, trouble · To what, where: thou, heart · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Loves of Abdalasis and Exilona.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fairest, Abdalasis), 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 fairest | punct |
| 2 | O | o | INTJ | _ | 3 fairest | discourse |
| 3 | fairest | fair | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 8 said | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 women | case |
| 5 | women | woman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 fairest | obl |
| 6 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 fairest | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 fairest | punct |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 dost | nsubj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 dost | punct |
| 11 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 dost | punct |
| 12 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 13 dost | advmod |
| 13 | dost | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 said | ccomp |
| 14 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 13 dost | obj |
| 15 | weep | weep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 dost | xcomp |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 troubled | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 troubled | cc |
| 18 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 21 heart | advmod |
| 19 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 heart | cop |
| 20 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 21 heart | nmod:poss |
| 21 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 troubled | nsubj:pass |
| 22 | troubled | trouble | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 said | ccomp |
| 23 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 22 troubled | punct |
| 24 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 troubled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: ask | past | fairest of women | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | do in a quote | present | Abdalasis | thou | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | weep in a quote | infinitive | Abdalasis not said here | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | is a in a quote | present | thy heart | thy nmod:poss | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | trouble in a quote | participle · passive | thy heart | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer |
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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