Legends of the conquest of Spain, The Story of Florinda., sentence 46

He confided me to your care as one who would be as a parent to me, when he should be far distant, serving your majesty with life and loyalty.

Who acts: father, your · What happens: confide, be, serve, care · To what, where: me, care, majesty

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 (father, your), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 confided	nsubj
2	confided	confide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 confided	obj
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 care	case
5	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 care	nmod:poss
6	care	care	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 confided	obl
7	as	as	ADP	_	8 one	case
8	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 confided	obl
9	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 parent	nsubj
10	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 parent	aux
11	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	14 parent	cop
12	as	as	ADP	_	14 parent	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 parent	det
14	parent	parent	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 one	acl:relcl
15	to	to	ADP	_	16 me	case
16	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 parent	nmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 distant	punct
18	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	23 distant	advmod
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 distant	nsubj
20	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 distant	aux
21	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	23 distant	cop
22	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	23 distant	advmod
23	distant	distant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 confided	parataxis
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 serving	punct
25	serving	serve	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	23 distant	advcl
26	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 majesty	nmod:poss
27	majesty	majesty	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 serving	obj
28	with	with	ADP	_	29 life	case
29	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 serving	obl
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 loyalty	cc
31	loyalty	loyalty	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 life	conj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 confided	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	confide speech: other	past	father	me	your care	as one	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Topic to care=Recipient
2	is	would			me	as a parent; who nsubj	tree rules
3	is	should	father			distant, far property	tree rules
4	serve	gerund	father not said here	your majesty		with life and loyalty	vn fulfilling-13.4.1-1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP.theme»: agent=Agent majesty=Recipient with life=Theme
5	care		your				nom care «act intransitive»: poss=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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🌲 Legends of the conquest of Spain, The Story of Florinda., sentence 46

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Pragmatics

Legends of the conquest of Spain, The Story of Florinda., sentence 46