Legends of the conquest of Spain, Legend of Count Julian and His Family., sentence 114
“There are fierce and cruel people who have come hither to murder thee.
Who acts: fierce people · What happens: be, come, murder · To what, where: thee
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 (fierce people), 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 | _ | 3 are | punct |
| 2 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 3 are | expl |
| 3 | are | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | fierce | fierce | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 people | amod |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 cruel | cc |
| 6 | cruel | cruel | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 fierce | conj |
| 7 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 are | nsubj |
| 8 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 come | nsubj |
| 9 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 come | aux |
| 10 | come | come | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 people | acl:relcl |
| 11 | hither | hither | ADV | _ | 10 come | advmod |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 murder | mark |
| 13 | murder | murder | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 come | advcl |
| 14 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 13 murder | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 are | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | does in a quote | present | fierce people | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | come in a quote | present · perfect | fierce people | hither property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | murder in a quote | to-infinitive | fierce people not said here | thee | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thou=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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