Legends of the conquest of Spain, The Story of Florinda., sentence 74

“Would to God, my father,” said she, “that the earth had opened and swallowed me ere I had been reduced to write these lines.

Who acts: God · What happens: say, open, swallow, reduce, write · To what, where: name, God, lines · 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 (God), 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	_	4 God	punct
2	Would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 God	aux
3	to	to	ADP	_	4 God	case
4	God	God	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 said	nsubj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 father	punct
6	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 father	nmod:poss
7	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 God	appos
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 father	punct
9	”	"	PUNCT	_	7 father	punct
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 opened	nsubj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 opened	punct
13	“	"	PUNCT	_	18 opened	punct
14	that	that	SCONJ	_	18 opened	mark
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 earth	det
16	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 opened	nsubj:pass
17	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 opened	aux
18	opened	open	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 said	ccomp
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 swallowed	cc
20	swallowed	swallow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 opened	conj
21	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 swallowed	obj
22	ere	ere	ADV	_	20 swallowed	advmod
23	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	26 reduced	nsubj
24	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 reduced	aux
25	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	26 reduced	aux:pass
26	reduced	reduce	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	20 swallowed	parataxis
27	to	to	PART	_	28 write	mark
28	write	write	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 reduced	xcomp
29	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	30 lines	det
30	lines	line	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 write	obj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	God			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	open in a quote	past · perfect · passive		name	the earth nsubj:pass	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme
3	swallow in a quote	past		God	ere property	vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Patient
4	reduce in a quote	past · perfect · passive		God		vn limit-76 «NP V NP S_INF»: subject=Patient clause=Goal
5	write in a quote	to-infinitive		this lines		vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent line=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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🌲 Legends of the conquest of Spain, The Story of Florinda., sentence 74

The tree

Pragmatics

Legends of the conquest of Spain, The Story of Florinda., sentence 74