Legends of the conquest of Spain, Legend of Count Julian and His Family., sentence 139
“Bear that frantic women hence,” said the emir; “but guard her well.”
Who acts: frantic women · What happens: say, guar · To what, where: emir, woman · 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 (frantic women), 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 Bear | punct |
| 2 | Bear | bear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 said | ccomp |
| 3 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 9 said | mark |
| 4 | frantic | frantic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 women | amod |
| 5 | women | woman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 said | nsubj |
| 6 | hence | hence | ADV | _ | 5 women | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 hence | punct |
| 8 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 women | punct |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 emir | det |
| 11 | emir | emir | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 said | obj |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 guard | punct |
| 13 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 guard | punct |
| 14 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 guard | cc |
| 15 | guard | guar | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 said | conj |
| 16 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 guard | obj |
| 17 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 15 guard | advmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
| 19 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | frantic women | the emir | Bear ccomp | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent emir=Topic | |||
| 2 | guar in a quote | past | frantic women not said here | woman | well property | 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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