Legends of the conquest of Spain, The Story of Florinda., sentence 42
“It is here, lovely Florinda!” said he, “It is here! and thou alone canst pluck it forth!”
Who acts: sign, lovely Florinda, thou · What happens: be, say, pluck · To what, where: sign · 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 (sign, lovely Florinda, thou), 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 | _ | 4 here | punct |
| 2 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 here | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 here | cop |
| 4 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 10 said | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 Florinda | punct |
| 6 | lovely | lovely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 Florinda | amod |
| 7 | Florinda | Florinda | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 said | nsubj |
| 8 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 7 Florinda | punct |
| 9 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 Florinda | punct |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 said | nsubj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 here | punct |
| 13 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 here | punct |
| 14 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 here | nsubj |
| 15 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 here | cop |
| 16 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 10 said | ccomp |
| 17 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 16 here | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 pluck | cc |
| 19 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 22 pluck | nsubj |
| 20 | alone | alone | ADV | _ | 22 pluck | advmod |
| 21 | canst | can | AUX | Style=Arch VerbForm=Fin | 22 pluck | aux |
| 22 | pluck | pluck | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 said | conj |
| 23 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 pluck | obj |
| 24 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 22 pluck | advmod |
| 25 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 22 pluck | punct |
| 26 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 pluck | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | sign | here property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: express | past | lovely Florinda | Florinda nsubj | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | is in a quote | present | sign | here property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | pluck in a quote | can | thou | sign | alone, forth property | vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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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