Legends of the conquest of Spain, The Story of Florinda., sentence 50
I would have thee love me, not as a father, nor as a monarch, but as one who adores thee.
Who acts: I, thee · What happens: have, love, adore · To what, where: thee, 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 (I, thee), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 have | nsubj |
| 2 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 have | aux |
| 3 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 3 have | obj |
| 5 | love | love | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 have | xcomp |
| 6 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 love | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 father | punct |
| 8 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 father | advmod |
| 9 | as | as | ADP | _ | 11 father | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 father | det |
| 11 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 love | parataxis |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 monarch | punct |
| 13 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 16 monarch | cc |
| 14 | as | as | ADP | _ | 16 monarch | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 monarch | det |
| 16 | monarch | monarch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 father | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 adores | punct |
| 18 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 22 adores | cc |
| 19 | as | as | ADP | _ | 20 one | case |
| 20 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 22 adores | obl |
| 21 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 adores | nsubj |
| 22 | adores | adore | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 have | conj |
| 23 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 22 adores | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | would | I | thee | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | love | infinitive | thee not said here | me | a father nor a monarch parataxis | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer i=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | adore | present | thee | as one; who nsubj | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer thou=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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