Legends of the conquest of Spain, Loves of Abdalasis and Exilona., sentence 28
In doing so, I do but listen to the dictates of true magnanimity.”
Who acts: I, true magnanimity · What happens: do, listen, dictate
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 (I, true magnanimity), 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 | In | in | SCONJ | _ | 2 doing | mark |
| 2 | doing | do | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 do | advcl |
| 3 | so | so | ADV | _ | 2 doing | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 doing | punct |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 do | nsubj |
| 6 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 8 listen | cc |
| 8 | listen | listen | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 6 do | conj |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 dictates | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 dictates | det |
| 11 | dictates | dictate | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 listen | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 magnanimity | case |
| 13 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 magnanimity | amod |
| 14 | magnanimity | magnanimity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 dictates | nmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 do | punct |
| 16 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 do | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | gerund | I not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | do | present | I | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | listen | infinitive | I not said here | to the dictates of true magnanimity | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to dictate=Theme | ||||
| 4 | dictate | true magnanimity | nom dictate «communication intransitive»: of=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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