Legends of the conquest of Spain, The Story of Florinda., sentence 78
Hasten, my father, to rescue your child from the power of the spoiler, and to vindicate the honour of your house!”
Who acts: you · What happens: hasten, rescue, vindicate, honour · To what, where: father, child, power, honour, house
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), 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 | Hasten | hasten | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 father | 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 | 1 Hasten | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 rescue | punct |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 rescue | mark |
| 7 | rescue | rescue | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Hasten | parataxis |
| 8 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 child | nmod:poss |
| 9 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 rescue | obj |
| 10 | from | from | ADP | _ | 12 power | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 power | det |
| 12 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 rescue | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 spoiler | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 spoiler | det |
| 15 | spoiler | spoiler | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 power | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 vindicate | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 vindicate | cc |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 vindicate | mark |
| 19 | vindicate | vindicate | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Hasten | conj |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 honour | det |
| 21 | honour | honour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 vindicate | obj |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 house | case |
| 23 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 house | nmod:poss |
| 24 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 honour | nmod |
| 25 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 1 Hasten | punct |
| 26 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Hasten | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hasten | imperative | you not said here | my father | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent father=Patient | ||||
| 2 | rescue | to-infinitive | your child | the power of the spoiler | vn steal-10.5 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent child=Theme from power=Source | ||||
| 3 | vindicate | to-infinitive | you not said here | the honour of your house | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | honour | your house | nom honour «state 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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