Legends of the conquest of Spain, The Story of Florinda., sentence 52
No one shall know our loves; and, moreover, the love of a monarch inflicts no degradation like the love of a common man—riches and honours attend upon it.
Who acts: one, love, riches · What happens: know, love, inflict, attend · To what, where: degradation, common man, monarch · 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 (one, love, riches), 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 | No | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 2 one | det |
| 2 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 know | nsubj |
| 3 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 know | aux |
| 4 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 loves | nmod:poss |
| 6 | loves | love | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 know | ccomp |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 inflicts | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 inflicts | cc |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 and | punct |
| 10 | moreover | moreover | ADV | _ | 17 inflicts | advmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 moreover | punct |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 love | det |
| 13 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 inflicts | nsubj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 monarch | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 monarch | det |
| 16 | monarch | monarch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 love | nmod |
| 17 | inflicts | inflict | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 know | conj |
| 18 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 19 degradation | det |
| 19 | degradation | degradation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 inflicts | obj |
| 20 | like | like | ADP | _ | 22 love | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 love | det |
| 22 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 inflicts | obl |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 man | case |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 man | det |
| 25 | common | common | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 man | amod |
| 26 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 love | nmod |
| 27 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 28 riches | punct |
| 28 | riches | rich | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 attend | nsubj |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 honours | cc |
| 30 | honours | honour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 riches | conj |
| 31 | attend | attend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 man | acl:relcl |
| 32 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 33 it | case |
| 33 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 attend | obl |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 know | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | shall | no one | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | love | present | our nmod:poss | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | inflict | present | the love of a monarch | no degradation | like the love of a common man; moreover property | tree rules | |||
| 4 | attend | present | riches and honours | a common man not said here | upon love | vn attend-107.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme man=Goal | |||
| 5 | love | a monarch | nom love «feeling transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 6 | love | a common man | nom love «feeling transitive»: of=patient |
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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