Legends of the conquest of Spain, Fate of Abdalasis and Exilona.—death of Muza., sentence 7
“What canst thou ask of me, Exilona,” said he, “that it would not be a happiness for me to grant?”
Who acts: thou, smile, me · What happens: ask, say, not be, grant · To what, where: Exilona, happiness · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Fate of Abdalasis and Exilona.—death of Muza.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (thou, smile, me), 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 | _ | 5 ask | punct |
| 2 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 5 ask | obj |
| 3 | canst | can | AUX | Style=Arch VerbForm=Fin | 5 ask | aux |
| 4 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 5 ask | nsubj |
| 5 | ask | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 said | ccomp |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 me | case |
| 7 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 ask | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 Exilona | punct |
| 9 | Exilona | Exilona | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 ask | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 ask | punct |
| 11 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 ask | punct |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 said | ccomp |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 he | punct |
| 15 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 happiness | punct |
| 16 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 22 happiness | mark |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 happiness | nsubj |
| 18 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 happiness | aux |
| 19 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 22 happiness | advmod |
| 20 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 22 happiness | cop |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 happiness | det |
| 22 | happiness | happiness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 he | appos |
| 23 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 26 grant | mark |
| 24 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 26 grant | nsubj |
| 25 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 grant | mark |
| 26 | grant | grant | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 happiness | acl |
| 27 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 22 happiness | punct |
| 28 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask in a quote | can | thou | Exilona | of me; What obj | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent what=Recipient | |||
| 2 | say speech: ask | past | Abdalasis ccomp | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | not is a in a quote | would | smile | a happiness | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | grant in a quote | to-infinitive | me | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent |
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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