Legends of the conquest of Spain, Legend of Count Julian and His Family., sentence 77
“Touch me not, sister,” said he with a mournful voice, “lest thou be consumed by the fire which rages within me.
Who acts: reader, fire · What happens: not touch, say, consume, rage · To what, where: reader, thou · 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 (reader, fire), 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 Touch | punct |
| 2 | Touch | touch | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 9 said | ccomp |
| 3 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 Touch | obj |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 2 Touch | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 sister | punct |
| 6 | sister | sister | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Touch | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Touch | punct |
| 8 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Touch | punct |
| 9 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 said | nsubj |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 voice | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 voice | det |
| 13 | mournful | mournful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 voice | amod |
| 14 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 said | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 consumed | punct |
| 16 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 consumed | punct |
| 17 | lest | lest | SCONJ | _ | 18 thou | case |
| 18 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 20 consumed | nsubj:pass |
| 19 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 20 consumed | aux:pass |
| 20 | consumed | consume | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 said | conj |
| 21 | by | by | ADP | _ | 23 fire | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 fire | det |
| 23 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 consumed | obl |
| 24 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 25 rages | nsubj |
| 25 | rages | rage | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 fire | acl:relcl |
| 26 | within | within | ADP | _ | 27 me | case |
| 27 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 25 rages | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not touch in a quote | infinitive | reader | sister obl | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme i=Co-Theme | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | reader | with a mournful voice | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | consume in a quote | infinitive · passive | the fire | thou | vn consume-66 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Asset | ||||
| 4 | rage in a quote | present | the fire | within reader | vn entity_specific_modes_being-47.2 «NP V»: agent=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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