Legends of the conquest of Spain, The Story of Florinda., sentence 62
“May ruin seize me,” cried he, “if I speak to prove thee!
Who acts: king · What happens: ruin, seize, cry, speak, prove · To what, where: king, thee · 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 (king), 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 | _ | 3 ruin | punct |
| 2 | May | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 ruin | aux |
| 3 | ruin | ruin | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 cried | ccomp |
| 4 | seize | seize | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 ruin | xcomp |
| 5 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 seize | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 ruin | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 ruin | punct |
| 8 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 cried | nsubj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 speak | punct |
| 11 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 speak | punct |
| 12 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 14 speak | mark |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 speak | nsubj |
| 14 | speak | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 cried | conj |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 prove | mark |
| 16 | prove | prove | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 speak | advcl |
| 17 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 16 prove | obj |
| 18 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 8 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ruin in a quote | may | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | seize in a quote | infinitive | king | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme | |||||
| 3 | cry speech: express | past | king | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | speak speech: other a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | present | king | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | prove in a quote | to-infinitive | king not said here | thee | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thou=Theme |
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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