Legends of the conquest of Spain, The Story of Florinda., sentence 57
But I see,” continued she, “that your majesty speaks in this manner only to try me.
Who acts: I, majesty · What happens: see, continue, speak, try · To what, where: line, manner, me · 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 (I, majesty), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 3 see | cc |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 see | nsubj |
| 3 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 see | punct |
| 5 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 see | punct |
| 6 | continued | continue | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 see | parataxis |
| 7 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 continued | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 speaks | punct |
| 9 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 speaks | punct |
| 10 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 13 speaks | mark |
| 11 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 majesty | nmod:poss |
| 12 | majesty | majesty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 speaks | nsubj |
| 13 | speaks | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 continued | conj |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 manner | case |
| 15 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 16 manner | det |
| 16 | manner | manner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 speaks | obl |
| 17 | only | only | ADV | _ | 19 try | advmod |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 try | mark |
| 19 | try | try | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 speaks | advcl |
| 20 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 try | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 see | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | present | I | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | continue in a quote | past | line | vn sustain-55.6 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent she=Theme | |||||
| 3 | speak speech: other | present | your majesty | this manner | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | try | to-infinitive | your majesty not said here | me | vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Eventuality |
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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