Legends of the conquest of Spain, Loves of Abdalasis and Exilona., sentence 35
I trust, however, in thy courtesy as a cavalier to respect me in my reverses, remembering what I have been; and that, though the crown has been wrested from my brow, the royal blood still warms within my veins.”
Who acts: I, royal blood · What happens: trust, respect, remember, wrest, warm · To what, where: me, reverses, that, brow
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, royal blood), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 trust | nsubj |
| 2 | trust | trust | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 trust | punct |
| 4 | however | however | ADV | _ | 2 trust | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 courtesy | punct |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 courtesy | case |
| 7 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 8 courtesy | nmod:poss |
| 8 | courtesy | courtesy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 trust | parataxis |
| 9 | as | as | ADP | _ | 11 cavalier | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 cavalier | det |
| 11 | cavalier | cavalier | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 courtesy | nmod |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 respect | mark |
| 13 | respect | respect | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 trust | parataxis |
| 14 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 respect | obj |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 reverses | case |
| 16 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 reverses | nmod:poss |
| 17 | reverses | reverse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 respect | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 remembering | punct |
| 19 | remembering | remember | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 respect | advcl |
| 20 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 19 remembering | obj |
| 21 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 been | nsubj |
| 22 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 been | aux |
| 23 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 20 what | acl:relcl |
| 24 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 33 wrested | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 wrested | cc |
| 26 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 33 wrested | nsubj:pass |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 wrested | punct |
| 28 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 33 wrested | mark |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 crown | det |
| 30 | crown | crown | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 wrested | nsubj:pass |
| 31 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 33 wrested | aux |
| 32 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 33 wrested | aux:pass |
| 33 | wrested | wrest | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 trust | parataxis |
| 34 | from | from | ADP | _ | 36 brow | case |
| 35 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 36 brow | nmod:poss |
| 36 | brow | brow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 wrested | obl |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 warms | punct |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 blood | det |
| 39 | royal | royal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 blood | amod |
| 40 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 warms | nsubj |
| 41 | still | still | ADV | _ | 42 warms | advmod |
| 42 | warms | warm | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 36 brow | acl:relcl |
| 43 | within | within | ADP | _ | 45 veins | case |
| 44 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 45 veins | nmod:poss |
| 45 | veins | vein | NOUN | Number=Plur | 42 warms | obl |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 33 wrested | punct |
| 47 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 33 wrested | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | trust | present | I | thy courtesy as a cavalier parataxis; however property | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | respect | to-infinitive | me | my reverses | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer i=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | remember | gerund | what obj | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent what=Theme | |||||
| 4 | wrest | present · perfect · passive | that | my brow | the crown nsubj:pass | vn steal-10.5 «NP V NP PP.source»: subject=Theme from brow=Source | |||
| 5 | warm | present | the royal blood | my brow not said here | still | within my veins | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent brow=Patient |
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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