Legends of the conquest of Spain, Legend of Count Julian and His Family., sentence 132
“If you find him not,” said he, “drag forth the bones of that wanton Cava, that they may be burnt, and the ashes scattered to the winds.”
Who acts: you, Yuza, bones · What happens: not find, say, bone, be, scatter · To what, where: Yuza, ashes · 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 (you, Yuza, bones), 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 said | punct |
| 2 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 4 find | mark |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 find | nsubj |
| 4 | find | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 said | advcl |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 find | obj |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 find | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 find | punct |
| 8 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 find | punct |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 bones | nsubj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 drag | punct |
| 12 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 drag | punct |
| 13 | drag | drag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 he | conj |
| 14 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 16 bones | advmod |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 bones | det |
| 16 | bones | bone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 said | ccomp |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 Cava | case |
| 18 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 20 Cava | nsubj |
| 19 | wanton | wanton | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 Cava | nmod:desc |
| 20 | Cava | Cava | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 bones | nmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 burnt | punct |
| 22 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 26 burnt | mark |
| 23 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 burnt | nsubj |
| 24 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 burnt | aux |
| 25 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 26 burnt | cop |
| 26 | burnt | burnt | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 said | parataxis |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 scattered | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 scattered | cc |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 ashes | det |
| 30 | ashes | ash | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 scattered | nsubj:pass |
| 31 | scattered | scatter | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 26 burnt | conj |
| 32 | to | to | ADP | _ | 34 winds | case |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 winds | det |
| 34 | winds | wind | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 scattered | obl |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
| 36 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not find a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | present | you | Yuza | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Topic | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 3 | bone in a quote | Yuza | of Cava that wanton; forth property | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | is in a quote | may | bones = bone | burnt property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | scatter in a quote | participle · passive | the ashes | to the winds | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=Theme |
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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