Legends of the conquest of Spain, The Story of Florinda., sentence 80
“Saddle thy steed,” said she, “and if thou dost aspire to knightly honour, or hope for lady’s grace—if thou hast fealty for thy lord, or devotion to his daughter—speed swiftly upon my errand.
Who acts: Saddle, thou, line · What happens: say, do, aspire, have · To what, where: fealty · 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 (Saddle, thou, line), 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 | _ | 2 Saddle | punct |
| 2 | Saddle | saddle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 said | nsubj |
| 3 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 4 steed | nmod:poss |
| 4 | steed | steed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Saddle | appos |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Saddle | punct |
| 6 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Saddle | punct |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 aspire | nsubj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 aspire | punct |
| 10 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 aspire | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 aspire | cc |
| 12 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 14 dost | mark |
| 13 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 14 dost | nsubj |
| 14 | dost | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 aspire | advcl |
| 15 | aspire | aspire | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 said | ccomp |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 honour | case |
| 17 | knightly | knightly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 honour | amod |
| 18 | honour | honour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 aspire | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 hope | punct |
| 20 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 21 hope | cc |
| 21 | hope | hope | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 honour | conj |
| 22 | for | for | ADP | _ | 25 grace | case |
| 23 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 grace | nmod:poss |
| 24 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 23 lady | case |
| 25 | grace | grace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 hope | nmod |
| 26 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 29 hast | punct |
| 27 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 29 hast | mark |
| 28 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 29 hast | nsubj |
| 29 | hast | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 said | conj |
| 30 | fealty | fealty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 hast | obj |
| 31 | for | for | ADP | _ | 33 lord | case |
| 32 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 33 lord | nmod:poss |
| 33 | lord | lord | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 hast | obl |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 devotion | punct |
| 35 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 36 devotion | cc |
| 36 | devotion | devotion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 hast | obl |
| 37 | to | to | ADP | _ | 39 daughter | case |
| 38 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 39 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 39 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 devotion | nmod |
| 40 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 41 speed | punct |
| 41 | speed | speed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 devotion | conj |
| 42 | swiftly | swiftly | ADV | _ | 45 errand | advmod |
| 43 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 45 errand | case |
| 44 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 45 errand | nmod:poss |
| 45 | errand | errand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 speed | nmod |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Saddle | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | do a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | present | thou | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | aspire in a quote | infinitive | line | to knightly honour or hope for lady's grace | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | have a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | present | thou | fealty | for thy lord; devotion to lord's daughter and speed upon my errand obl | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fealty=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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