Legends of the conquest of Spain, The Story of Florinda., sentence 53
I will advance thee to rank and dignity, and place thee above the proudest females of my court.
Who acts: I · What happens: advance · To what, where: thee, rank
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), 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 advance | nsubj |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 advance | aux |
| 3 | advance | advance | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 3 advance | obj |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 rank | case |
| 6 | rank | rank | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 advance | obl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 dignity | cc |
| 8 | dignity | dignity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 rank | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 place | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 place | cc |
| 11 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 advance | obl |
| 12 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 11 place | nmod |
| 13 | above | above | ADP | _ | 16 females | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 females | det |
| 15 | proudest | proud | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 16 females | amod |
| 16 | females | female | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 place | nmod |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 court | case |
| 18 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 court | nmod:poss |
| 19 | court | court | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 females | nmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 advance | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | advance | future | I | thee | to rank and dignity goal; place thee above the proudest females of my court obl | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent thou=Theme to rank=Goal |
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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