Legends of the conquest of Spain, The Story of Florinda., sentence 40
“Senior,” said she, “I can find no thorn, nor any sign of wound.”
Who acts: thorn · What happens: say, find, sign · To what, where: thorn, wound · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, The Story of Florinda.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (thorn), 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 Senior | punct |
| 2 | Senior | senior | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 said | ccomp |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Senior | punct |
| 4 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Senior | punct |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 said | nsubj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 find | punct |
| 8 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 find | punct |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 find | nsubj |
| 10 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 find | aux |
| 11 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 said | ccomp |
| 12 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 13 thorn | det |
| 13 | thorn | thorn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 find | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 sign | punct |
| 15 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 17 sign | cc |
| 16 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 17 sign | det |
| 17 | sign | sign | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 find | obl |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 wound | case |
| 19 | wound | wound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 sign | nmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 find | punct |
| 21 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 find | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | thorn | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | find in a quote | can | thorn | no thorn | any sign of wound obl | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thorn=Topic | |||
| 3 | sign in a quote | wound | nom sign «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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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