Legends of the conquest of Spain, The Story of Florinda., sentence 47
May God incline your majesty ever to protect me as a father.”
Who acts: God · What happens: incline, protect · To what, where: majesty, me
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 (God), 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 | May | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 incline | aux |
| 2 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 incline | nsubj |
| 3 | incline | incline | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 majesty | nmod:poss |
| 5 | majesty | majesty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 incline | obj |
| 6 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 3 incline | advmod |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 protect | mark |
| 8 | protect | protect | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 incline | advcl |
| 9 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 protect | obj |
| 10 | as | as | ADP | _ | 12 father | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 father | det |
| 12 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 protect | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 incline | punct |
| 14 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 incline | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | incline | may | God | your majesty | ever | vn addict-96 «NP V NP PP.Theme»: agent=Agent majesty=Patient | |||
| 2 | protect | to-infinitive | God not said here | me | as a father | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Beneficiary |
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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