Legends of the conquest of Spain, Legend of Count Julian and His Family., sentence 136

“Mercy! mercy!” cried she, in piercing accents, “mercy on my son—my only child!

Who acts: Mercy · What happens: cry · To what, where: Cava, piercing accents

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 (Mercy), 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 Mercy	punct
2	Mercy	mercy	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 cried	nsubj
3	!	!	PUNCT	_	4 mercy	punct
4	mercy	mercy	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Mercy	conj
5	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Mercy	punct
6	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Mercy	punct
7	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 cried	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 accents	punct
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 accents	case
11	piercing	piercing	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 accents	compound
12	accents	accent	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 cried	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 mercy	punct
14	“	"	PUNCT	_	15 mercy	punct
15	mercy	mercy	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 cried	obl
16	on	on	ADP	_	18 son	case
17	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 son	nmod:poss
18	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 mercy	nmod
19	—	-	PUNCT	_	22 child	punct
20	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 child	nmod:poss
21	only	only	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 child	amod
22	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 cried	obl
23	!	!	PUNCT	_	7 cried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cry speech: express	past	Mercy and mercy	Cava		piercing accents		mercy on my son obl; my only child obl	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Topic

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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg77685/39/136/

🌲 Legends of the conquest of Spain, Legend of Count Julian and His Family., sentence 136

The tree

Pragmatics

Legends of the conquest of Spain, Legend of Count Julian and His Family., sentence 136