Legends of the conquest of Spain, The Story of Florinda., sentence 45
“Senior,” said she, “my father taught me to love and reverence you.
Who acts: Don, father · What happens: say, teach · To what, where: you, Don · 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 (Don, father), 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 taught | punct |
| 8 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 taught | punct |
| 9 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 father | nmod:poss |
| 10 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 taught | nsubj |
| 11 | taught | teach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 said | conj |
| 12 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 taught | iobj |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 love | case |
| 14 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 taught | obl |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 reverence | cc |
| 16 | reverence | reverence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 love | conj |
| 17 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 taught | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Don | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | teach speech: other in a quote | past | my father | you | Don | to love and reverence | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient you=Topic |
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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