Legends of the conquest of Spain, Legend of Count Julian and His Family., sentence 121
“Emir,” replied the countess, “may the greatest torments be my portion, both here and hereafter, if what I speak be not the truth!
Who acts: Emir, greatest torments · What happens: reply, be, speak, not be · To what, where: countess, portion, truth · 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 (Emir, greatest torments), 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 Emir | punct |
| 2 | Emir | Emir | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 replied | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Emir | punct |
| 4 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Emir | punct |
| 5 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 countess | det |
| 7 | countess | countess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 replied | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 portion | punct |
| 9 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 portion | punct |
| 10 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 portion | aux |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 torments | det |
| 12 | greatest | great | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 13 torments | amod |
| 13 | torments | torment | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 portion | nsubj |
| 14 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 16 portion | cop |
| 15 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 portion | nmod:poss |
| 16 | portion | portion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 countess | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 here | punct |
| 18 | both | both | CCONJ | _ | 19 here | cc:preconj |
| 19 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 replied | ccomp |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 hereafter | cc |
| 21 | hereafter | hereafter | ADV | _ | 19 here | conj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 what | punct |
| 23 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 24 what | mark |
| 24 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 5 replied | parataxis |
| 25 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 26 speak | nsubj |
| 26 | speak | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 what | acl:relcl |
| 27 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 30 truth | cop |
| 28 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 30 truth | advmod |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 truth | det |
| 30 | truth | truth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 speak | obj |
| 31 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 5 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: express | past | Emir | the countess and my portion | what parataxis | tree rules | |||
| 2 | is a in a quote | may | the greatest torments | my portion | my nmod:poss | tree rules | |||
| 3 | speak speech: other in a quote | present | Emir | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | not is a in a quote | infinitive | the truth | 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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