Legends of the conquest of Spain, The Story of Florinda., sentence 77
Thy daughter has been dishonoured, the royal cradle of the Goths polluted, and our lineage insulted and disgraced.
Who acts: Goths, lineage · What happens: dishonour, pollute, insult, disgrace · To what, where: daughter
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 (Goths, lineage), 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 | Thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 2 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 2 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 dishonoured | nsubj |
| 3 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 dishonoured | aux |
| 4 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 dishonoured | aux:pass |
| 5 | dishonoured | dishonour | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 cradle | punct |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 cradle | det |
| 8 | royal | royal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 cradle | amod |
| 9 | cradle | cradle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 dishonoured | obj |
| 10 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 13 polluted | mark |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Goths | det |
| 12 | Goths | Goth | PROPN | Number=Plur | 13 polluted | nsubj |
| 13 | polluted | pollute | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 cradle | advcl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 insulted | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 insulted | cc |
| 16 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 lineage | nmod:poss |
| 17 | lineage | lineage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 insulted | nsubj |
| 18 | insulted | insult | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 dishonoured | parataxis |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 disgraced | cc |
| 20 | disgraced | disgrace | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 insulted | conj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 dishonoured | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dishonour | present · perfect · passive | Thy daughter | the royal cradle obj | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Experiencer cradle=Result | ||||
| 2 | pollute | past | the Goths | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | insult | participle | our lineage | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | disgrace | participle | our lineage not said here | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
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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