Legends of the conquest of Spain, Legend of Count Julian and His Family., sentence 166
But the Christians drew back with horror from the deed, and said—“In the hand of God is vengeance, let not her blood be upon our heads.”
Who acts: Christians, blood · What happens: draw back, say, be, let · To what, where: hand vengeance, blood, heads · 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 (Christians, blood), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 4 drew | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Christians | det |
| 3 | Christians | Christian | PROPN | Number=Plur | 4 drew | nsubj |
| 4 | drew | draw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 said | advcl |
| 5 | back | back | ADV | _ | 4 drew | advmod |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 horror | case |
| 7 | horror | horror | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 drew | obl |
| 8 | from | from | ADP | _ | 10 deed | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 deed | det |
| 10 | deed | deed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 drew | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 said | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 said | cc |
| 13 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 22 vengeance | punct |
| 15 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 vengeance | punct |
| 16 | In | in | ADP | _ | 18 hand | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 hand | det |
| 18 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 vengeance | compound |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 God | case |
| 20 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 hand | nmod |
| 21 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 vengeance | cop |
| 22 | vengeance | vengeance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 said | ccomp |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 let | punct |
| 24 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 22 vengeance | appos |
| 25 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 27 blood | advmod |
| 26 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 blood | nmod:poss |
| 27 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 let | obj |
| 28 | be | be | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 let | xcomp |
| 29 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 31 heads | case |
| 30 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 31 heads | nmod:poss |
| 31 | heads | head | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 be | obl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 24 let | punct |
| 33 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 vengeance | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | draw back | past | the Christians | with horror; from the deed | vn split-23.2 «NP V PP.co-patient»: agent=Patient from deed=Co-Patient | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | is a in a quote | present | hand vengeance | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | let in a quote | infinitive | Alahor's blood | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | be in a quote | infinitive | Alahor's blood not said here | our heads | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon head=Location |
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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