Legends of the conquest of Spain, The Story of Florinda., sentence 66

“My lord,” said she, “I am your subject, and in your power; take my life if it be your pleasure; but nothing shall tempt me to commit a crime which would be treason to the queen, disgrace to my father, agony to my mother, and perdition to myself.”

Who acts: lord, nothing, crime · What happens: say, be, take, tempt, commit · To what, where: power, subject, life, pleasure, lord, crime · 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 (lord, nothing, crime), 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	_	6 said	punct
2	My	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 lord	nmod:poss
3	lord	lord	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 said	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 lord	punct
5	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 lord	punct
6	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 said	nsubj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 subject	punct
9	“	"	PUNCT	_	13 subject	punct
10	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 subject	nsubj
11	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 subject	cop
12	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 subject	nmod:poss
13	subject	subject	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 said	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 power	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 power	cc
16	in	in	ADP	_	18 power	case
17	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 power	nmod:poss
18	power	power	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 said	obl
19	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 take	punct
20	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 said	ccomp
21	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 life	nmod:poss
22	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 take	obj
23	if	if	SCONJ	_	27 pleasure	mark
24	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 pleasure	expl
25	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	27 pleasure	cop
26	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 pleasure	nmod:poss
27	pleasure	pleasure	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 take	advcl
28	;	;	PUNCT	_	32 tempt	punct
29	but	but	CCONJ	_	32 tempt	cc
30	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	32 tempt	nsubj
31	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 tempt	aux
32	tempt	tempt	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 said	conj
33	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	32 tempt	obj
34	to	to	PART	_	35 commit	mark
35	commit	commit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 tempt	xcomp
36	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	37 crime	det
37	crime	crime	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 commit	obj
38	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	41 treason	nsubj
39	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	41 treason	aux
40	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	41 treason	cop
41	treason	treason	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 crime	conj
42	to	to	ADP	_	44 queen	case
43	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 queen	det
44	queen	queen	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 treason	nmod
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 disgrace	punct
46	disgrace	disgrace	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 treason	conj
47	to	to	ADP	_	49 father	case
48	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	49 father	nmod:poss
49	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 commit	obl
50	,	,	PUNCT	_	51 agony	punct
51	agony	agony	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 father	conj
52	to	to	ADP	_	54 mother	case
53	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	54 mother	nmod:poss
54	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 commit	obl
55	,	,	PUNCT	_	57 perdition	punct
56	and	and	CCONJ	_	57 perdition	cc
57	perdition	perdition	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 said	parataxis
58	to	to	ADP	_	59 myself	case
59	myself	myself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	57 perdition	nmod
60	.	.	PUNCT	_	57 perdition	punct
61	”	"	PUNCT	_	57 perdition	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	My lord			your power	countenance nsubj; perdition to myself parataxis	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	is a in a quote	present	My lord = lord	your subject			your nmod:poss	tree rules
3	take in a quote	infinitive		my life				vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=Theme
4	is a a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	infinitive		your pleasure			your nmod:poss	tree rules
5	tempt in a quote	shall	nothing	My lord = lord				vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent i=Recipient clause=Topic
6	commit in a quote	to-infinitive	nothing not said here	a crime and treason and disgrace	my father and agony		to my mother	vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent crime=Theme to father=Destination
7	is a in a quote	would	a crime and treason and disgrace	treason and disgrace			to the queen; disgrace conj	tree rules

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 66

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Legends of the conquest of Spain, The Story of Florinda., sentence 66