Legends of the conquest of Spain, Of the Loves of Roderick and the Princess Elyata., sentence 22
“She is a royal captive,” said he; “it belongs to my sovereign alone to dispose of her.”
Who acts: tempest, Alcayde, captive · What happens: be, say, belong, dispose · To what, where: royal captive · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Of the Loves of Roderick and the Princess Elyata.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (tempest, Alcayde, captive), 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 | _ | 9 said | punct |
| 2 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 captive | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 captive | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 captive | det |
| 5 | royal | royal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 captive | amod |
| 6 | captive | captive | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 said | ccomp |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 captive | punct |
| 8 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 captive | 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 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 belongs | punct |
| 12 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 belongs | punct |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 belongs | nsubj |
| 14 | belongs | belong | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 said | conj |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 sovereign | case |
| 16 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 sovereign | nmod:poss |
| 17 | sovereign | sovereign | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 belongs | obl |
| 18 | alone | alone | ADV | _ | 14 belongs | advmod |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 dispose | mark |
| 20 | dispose | dispose | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 belongs | advcl |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 her | case |
| 22 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 dispose | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
| 24 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | tempest | a royal captive | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Alcayde | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | belong in a quote | present | captive | to my sovereign; alone property | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | dispose in a quote | to-infinitive | captive not said here | of tempest | vn addict-96 «NP V NP PP.Theme»: agent=Agent |
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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