Legends of the conquest of Spain, Loves of Abdalasis and Exilona., sentence 43
Hast thou then entirely forgotten the letter of thy father?
What happens: have, forget, letter · To what, where: thou, letter, father
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: 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 | Hast | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 forgotten | advcl |
| 2 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 1 Hast | obj |
| 3 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 forgotten | advmod |
| 4 | entirely | entirely | ADV | _ | 5 forgotten | advmod |
| 5 | forgotten | forget | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 letter | det |
| 7 | letter | letter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 forgotten | obj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 father | case |
| 9 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 10 father | nmod:poss |
| 10 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 letter | nmod |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 forgotten | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | thou | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thou=Patient | |||||
| 2 | forget | participle | the letter of thy father | then | entirely property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | letter | thy father | nom letter «communication transitive»: of=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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