Legends of the conquest of Spain, The Story of Florinda., sentence 76
Alas, my father; thou hast intrusted thy lamb to the guardianship of the lion.
Who acts: father · What happens: intrust · To what, where: thou, father
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 (father), 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 | Alas | alas | INTJ | _ | 4 father | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Alas | punct |
| 3 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 father | nmod:poss |
| 4 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 8 intrusted | punct |
| 6 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 8 intrusted | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | hast | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 intrusted | aux |
| 8 | intrusted | intrust | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 father | acl:relcl |
| 9 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 10 lamb | nmod:poss |
| 10 | lamb | lamb | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 intrusted | obj |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 guardianship | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 guardianship | det |
| 13 | guardianship | guardianship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 intrusted | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 lion | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 lion | det |
| 16 | lion | lion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 guardianship | nmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 father | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | intrust | present · perfect · passive | my father not said here | thou | to the guardianship of the lion; thy lamb obj | 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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