Legends of the conquest of Spain, Legend of Count Julian and His Family., sentence 110
“Fearest thou the dead, my child?”
What happens: fear · To what, where: thou
This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Legend of Count Julian and His Family.. 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Fearest | punct |
| 2 | Fearest | fear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 2 Fearest | obj |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 dead | det |
| 5 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 Fearest | obl:unmarked |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Fearest | punct |
| 7 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 child | nmod:poss |
| 8 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Fearest | obj |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 Fearest | punct |
| 10 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Fearest | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fear in a quote | present | thou | the dead obl:unmarked; my child obj | 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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