Legends of the conquest of Spain, The Story of Florinda., sentence 56

“Senior,” said she, “the line I spring from can receive no dignity by means so vile; and my father would rather die than purchase rank and power by the dishonour of his child.

Who acts: consciousness, line, father · What happens: say, spring, receive, mean, die, dishonour · To what, where: line, dignity, child · 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 (consciousness, line, father), 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 Senior	punct
2	Senior	senior	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 said	ccomp
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Senior	punct
4	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 Senior	punct
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 said	nsubj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 receive	punct
8	“	"	PUNCT	_	15 receive	punct
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 line	det
10	line	line	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 receive	nsubj
11	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 spring	nsubj
12	spring	spring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 line	acl:relcl
13	from	from	ADP	_	12 spring	obl
14	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 receive	aux
15	receive	receive	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 means	csubj
16	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	17 dignity	det
17	dignity	dignity	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 receive	obj
18	by	by	ADP	_	19 means	case
19	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 said	ccomp
20	so	so	ADV	_	21 vile	advmod
21	vile	vile	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 means	xcomp
22	;	;	PUNCT	_	28 die	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 die	cc
24	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 father	nmod:poss
25	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 die	nsubj
26	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 die	aux
27	rather	rather	ADV	_	28 die	advmod
28	die	die	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 means	conj
29	than	than	ADP	_	31 rank	case
30	purchase	purchase	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 rank	compound
31	rank	rank	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 die	obl
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 power	cc
33	power	power	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 rank	conj
34	by	by	ADP	_	36 dishonour	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 dishonour	det
36	dishonour	dishonour	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 die	obl
37	of	of	ADP	_	39 child	case
38	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	39 child	nmod:poss
39	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 dishonour	nmod
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	consciousness			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	spring in a quote	present	consciousness	the line not said here		vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location line=Theme
3	receive in a quote	can	the line	no dignity		vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dignity=Theme
4	mean in a quote	present			vile property	vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
5	die in a quote	would	my father		than purchase rank and power; by the dishonour of father's child	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
6	dishonour in a quote			father's child		nom dishonour «state 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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🌲 Legends of the conquest of Spain, The Story of Florinda., sentence 56

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Legends of the conquest of Spain, The Story of Florinda., sentence 56