Legends of the conquest of Spain, The Story of Florinda., sentence 49
“Florinda,” said the king, “either thou dost not or thou wilt not understand me.
Who acts: Florinda, thou · What happens: say, not do, not understand · To what, where: king, Florinda · 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 (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 | _ | 2 Florinda | punct |
| 2 | Florinda | Florinda | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 said | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Florinda | punct |
| 4 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Florinda | punct |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 king | det |
| 7 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 said | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 dost | punct |
| 9 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 dost | punct |
| 10 | either | either | CCONJ | _ | 12 dost | cc:preconj |
| 11 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 12 dost | nsubj |
| 12 | dost | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 said | parataxis |
| 13 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 dost | advmod |
| 14 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 18 understand | cc |
| 15 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 18 understand | nsubj |
| 16 | wilt | will | AUX | Style=Arch VerbForm=Fin | 18 understand | aux |
| 17 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 18 understand | advmod |
| 18 | understand | understand | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 dost | conj |
| 19 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 understand | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Florinda | the king | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not do in a quote | present | thou | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | not understand in a quote | future | thou | Florinda | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer i=Stimulus |
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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