Legends of the conquest of Spain, Legend of Count Julian and His Family., sentence 124
“Leave this matter to me,” whispered he to Alahor; “I will produce the child.”
Who acts: Alahor, Emir · What happens: leave, whisper, produce · To what, where: matter, me, astrologer, Alahor, child · 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 (Alahor, Emir), 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 Leave | punct |
| 2 | Leave | leave | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 matter | det |
| 4 | matter | matter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Leave | obj |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 me | case |
| 6 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 Leave | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Leave | punct |
| 8 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Leave | punct |
| 9 | whispered | whisper | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 Leave | parataxis |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 whispered | obj |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 Alahor | case |
| 12 | Alahor | Alahor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 whispered | obl |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 produce | punct |
| 14 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 produce | punct |
| 15 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 produce | nsubj |
| 16 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 produce | aux |
| 17 | produce | produce | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 Leave | conj |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 child | det |
| 19 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 produce | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Leave | punct |
| 21 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Leave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave in a quote | imperative | Alahor not said here | this matter | me | tree rules | |||
| 2 | whisper speech: assert | past | astrologer | Alahor | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Topic to alahor=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | produce in a quote | future | Emir | the child | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Result |
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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