Legends of the conquest of Spain, Legend of Count Julian and His Family., sentence 154
“Then stretch forth thy hands and bless it, my child,” said the astrologer.
Who acts: astrologer · What happens: stretch, bless, say · To what, where: hands, hand · 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 (astrologer), 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 | _ | 3 stretch | punct |
| 2 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 stretch | advmod |
| 3 | stretch | stretch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 said | ccomp |
| 4 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 3 stretch | advmod |
| 5 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 6 hands | nmod:poss |
| 6 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 stretch | obj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 bless | cc |
| 8 | bless | bless | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 stretch | conj |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 bless | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 child | punct |
| 11 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 child | nmod:poss |
| 12 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 stretch | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 stretch | punct |
| 14 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 stretch | punct |
| 15 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 astrologer | det |
| 17 | astrologer | astrologer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 said | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stretch in a quote | infinitive | thy hands | then | my child obl; forth property | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent hand=Patient | |||
| 2 | bless in a quote | infinitive | hand | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the astrologer | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=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.
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