Legends of the conquest of Spain, Legend of Count Julian and His Family., sentence 111
“No, mother, the dead can do no harm,—and what should I fear from my sister?”
Who acts: mother · What happens: do, fear · To what, where: harm
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: who acts (mother), 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 | _ | 9 do | punct |
| 2 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 4 mother | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 No | punct |
| 4 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 do | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 dead | punct |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 dead | det |
| 7 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 mother | acl |
| 8 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 do | aux |
| 9 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 10 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 11 harm | det |
| 11 | harm | harm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 do | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 do | punct |
| 13 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 do | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 fear | cc |
| 15 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 18 fear | obj |
| 16 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 fear | aux |
| 17 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 fear | nsubj |
| 18 | fear | fear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 do | conj |
| 19 | from | from | ADP | _ | 21 sister | case |
| 20 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 sister | nmod:poss |
| 21 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 fear | obl |
| 22 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 9 do | punct |
| 23 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 do | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do in a quote | can | mother | no harm | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent harm=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | fear in a quote | should | mother | from my sister; what obj | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus |
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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