Legends of the conquest of Spain, Loves of Abdalasis and Exilona., sentence 38
He besought her to unite her destiny with his, and share his state and power, promising that she should have no rival nor co-partner in his heart.
Who acts: repulse, spirit · What happens: beseech, unite, share, promise, have · To what, where: spirit, destiny, state, rival, heart
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 (repulse, spirit), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 besought | nsubj |
| 2 | besought | beseech | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 besought | obj |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 unite | mark |
| 5 | unite | unite | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 besought | xcomp |
| 6 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 destiny | nmod:poss |
| 7 | destiny | destiny | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 unite | obj |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 his | case |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 unite | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 share | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 share | cc |
| 12 | share | share | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 besought | conj |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 state | nmod:poss |
| 14 | state | state | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 share | obj |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 power | cc |
| 16 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 state | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 promising | punct |
| 18 | promising | promise | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 share | advcl |
| 19 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 22 have | mark |
| 20 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 have | nsubj |
| 21 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 have | aux |
| 22 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 promising | xcomp |
| 23 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 24 rival | det |
| 24 | rival | rival | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 have | obj |
| 25 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 26 co-partner | cc |
| 26 | co-partner | co-partner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 rival | conj |
| 27 | in | in | ADP | _ | 29 heart | case |
| 28 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 heart | nmod:poss |
| 29 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 have | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 besought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | beseech | past | repulse | spirit | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | unite | to-infinitive | repulse not said here | spirit's destiny | repulse obj | tree rules | |||
| 3 | share | infinitive | repulse not said here | repulse's state and power | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | promise speech: promise | gerund | repulse not said here | vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | have not said to happen | should | spirit | no rival nor co-partner | repulse's heart | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rival=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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