Legends of the conquest of Spain, Loves of Abdalasis and Exilona., sentence 44
‘Beware my son,’ said he, ‘of love: it is an idle passion, which enfeebles the heart and blinds the judgment.’”
Who acts: you, infatuation, love, idle passion · What happens: beware, say, be, enfeeble, blind · To what, where: son, idle passion, heart, judgment · 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 (you, infatuation, love, idle passion), 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 | _ | 2 Beware | punct |
| 2 | Beware | beware | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 son | nmod:poss |
| 4 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Beware | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Beware | punct |
| 6 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Beware | punct |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 Beware | parataxis |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 said | nsubj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 love | punct |
| 10 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 12 love | punct |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 love | case |
| 12 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Beware | vocative |
| 13 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 18 passion | punct |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 passion | nsubj |
| 15 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 passion | cop |
| 16 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 passion | det |
| 17 | idle | idle | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 passion | amod |
| 18 | passion | passion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Beware | parataxis |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 enfeebles | punct |
| 20 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 enfeebles | nsubj |
| 21 | enfeebles | enfeeble | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 passion | parataxis |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 heart | det |
| 23 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 enfeebles | obj |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 blinds | cc |
| 25 | blinds | blind | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 enfeebles | conj |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 judgment | det |
| 27 | judgment | judgment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 blinds | obj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Beware | punct |
| 29 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 2 Beware | punct |
| 30 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Beware | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | beware | imperative | you not said here | my son | love vocative | tree rules | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | infatuation | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is a | present | love | a idle passion | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | enfeeble | present | a idle passion | the heart | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | blind | present | a idle passion not said here | the judgment | tree rules |
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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