Legends of the conquest of Spain, The Story of Florinda., sentence 69
Let it suffice to say, that Don Roderick pursued his suit to the beautiful Florinda, his passion being more and more inflamed by the resistance of the virtuous damsel.
Who acts: you, imagination, Don, passion · What happens: let, suffice, say, pursue, be, inflame · To what, where: imagination, suit, beautiful Florinda, virtuous damsel · 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 (you, imagination, Don, passion), 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 | Let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Let | obj |
| 3 | suffice | suffice | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Let | xcomp |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 say | mark |
| 5 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 suffice | xcomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 pursued | punct |
| 7 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 10 pursued | mark |
| 8 | Don | Don | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 pursued | nsubj |
| 9 | Roderick | Roderick | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Don | flat |
| 10 | pursued | pursue | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 say | ccomp |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 suit | nmod:poss |
| 12 | suit | suit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 pursued | obj |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 Florinda | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 Florinda | det |
| 15 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 Florinda | amod |
| 16 | Florinda | Florinda | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 pursued | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 passion | punct |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 passion | nmod:poss |
| 19 | passion | passion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 more | nsubj |
| 20 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 21 more | cop |
| 21 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 16 Florinda | acl:relcl |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 inflamed | cc |
| 23 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 24 inflamed | advmod |
| 24 | inflamed | inflame | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 more | conj |
| 25 | by | by | ADP | _ | 27 resistance | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 resistance | det |
| 27 | resistance | resistance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 inflamed | obl |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 damsel | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 damsel | det |
| 30 | virtuous | virtuous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 damsel | amod |
| 31 | damsel | damsel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 resistance | nmod |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let | imperative | you not said here | imagination | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | suffice | infinitive | imagination not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | to-infinitive | imagination not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | pursue | past | Don | Florinda's suit | the beautiful Florinda | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent suit=Theme to florinda=Trajectory | |||
| 5 | is | gerund | Florinda's passion | the beautiful Florinda not said here | more property | tree rules | |||
| 6 | inflame | participle | Florinda's passion not said here | by the resistance of the virtuous damsel | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 7 | resist | the virtuous damsel | nom resistance «act 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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