Legends of the conquest of Spain, Legend of Count Julian and His Family., sentence 120

“Countess,” said the emir, “I am not to be deceived; tell me where you have concealed the boy, or tortures shall wring from you the secret.”

Who acts: Countess, you, tortures · What happens: say, not deceive, tell, conceal, wring · To what, where: emir, Countess, secret, boy · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Countess, you, tortures), 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 Countess	punct
2	Countess	countess	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 said	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Countess	punct
4	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Countess	punct
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 emir	det
7	emir	emir	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 said	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 deceived	punct
9	“	"	PUNCT	_	15 deceived	punct
10	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 deceived	nsubj
11	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 deceived	aux
12	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	15 deceived	advmod
13	to	to	PART	_	15 deceived	mark
14	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	15 deceived	aux:pass
15	deceived	deceive	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 emir	acl:relcl
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 tell	punct
17	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 said	ccomp
18	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 tell	iobj
19	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	22 concealed	advmod
20	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	22 concealed	nsubj
21	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 concealed	aux
22	concealed	conceal	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	17 tell	ccomp
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 boy	det
24	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 concealed	obj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 wring	punct
26	or	or	CCONJ	_	29 wring	cc
27	tortures	torture	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 wring	nsubj
28	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 wring	aux
29	wring	wring	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 tell	obl
30	from	from	ADP	_	31 you	case
31	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	29 wring	nmod
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 secret	det
33	secret	secret	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 tell	obj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	17 tell	punct
35	”	"	PUNCT	_	17 tell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Countess	the emir			tree rules
2	not deceive in a quote	present · passive	Countess not said here	Countess			vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
3	tell speech: assert in a quote	infinitive		the secret	Countess		tree rules
4	conceal in a quote	present · perfect	you	the boy			vn concealment-16 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boy=Patient
5	wring in a quote	shall	tortures			from you	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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Pragmatics

Legends of the conquest of Spain, Legend of Count Julian and His Family., sentence 120