Legends of the conquest of Spain, Loves of Abdalasis and Exilona., sentence 46
“My father,” said he, “spake but of the blandishments of wanton love; against these I am secured by my virtuous passion for Exilona.”
Who acts: father, virtuous passion · What happens: say, speak, secure, blandish · To what, where: these, wanton love · 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 (father, virtuous 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 | _ | 6 said | punct |
| 2 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 father | nmod:poss |
| 3 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 said | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 father | punct |
| 5 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 father | punct |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 spake | nsubj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 spake | punct |
| 9 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 spake | punct |
| 10 | spake | speak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 said | ccomp |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 blandishments | cc |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 blandishments | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 blandishments | det |
| 14 | blandishments | blandishment | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 spake | conj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 love | case |
| 16 | wanton | wanton | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 love | compound |
| 17 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 blandishments | nmod |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 23 secured | punct |
| 19 | against | against | ADP | _ | 20 these | case |
| 20 | these | this | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 23 secured | nsubj:pass |
| 21 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 secured | nsubj |
| 22 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 secured | aux:pass |
| 23 | secured | secure | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 said | ccomp |
| 24 | by | by | ADP | _ | 27 passion | case |
| 25 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 passion | nmod:poss |
| 26 | virtuous | virtuous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 passion | amod |
| 27 | passion | passion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 secured | obl |
| 28 | for | for | ADP | _ | 29 Exilona | case |
| 29 | Exilona | Exilona | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 passion | nmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 23 secured | punct |
| 31 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 23 secured | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | My father | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | speak speech: other in a quote | father | the blandishments of wanton love conj | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | secure in a quote | present · passive | my virtuous passion for Exilona | these | I nsubj | vn ensure-99 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition subject=Theme | |||
| 4 | blandish in a quote | wanton love | nom blandishment «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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