Legends of the conquest of Spain, The Story of Florinda., sentence 81
Rest not, halt not, spare not the spur; but hie thee day and night until thou reach the sea; take the first bark, and haste with sail and oar to Ceuta, nor pause until thou give this letter to the count my father.”
Who acts: you, thou · What happens: not rest, not halt, not spare, hie, reach, take · To what, where: haste, spur, thee, sea, first bark, letter
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, thou), 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 | Rest | rest | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 1 Rest | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 halt | punct |
| 4 | halt | halt | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Rest | conj |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 halt | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 spare | punct |
| 7 | spare | spare | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 4 halt | conj |
| 8 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 spare | advmod |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 spur | det |
| 10 | spur | spur | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 spare | obj |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 hie | punct |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 13 hie | cc |
| 13 | hie | hie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Rest | parataxis |
| 14 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 13 hie | obj |
| 15 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 hie | obl:unmarked |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 night | cc |
| 17 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 day | conj |
| 18 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 20 reach | mark |
| 19 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 20 reach | nsubj |
| 20 | reach | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 hie | advcl |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 sea | det |
| 22 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 reach | obj |
| 23 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 24 take | punct |
| 24 | take | take | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Rest | conj |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 bark | det |
| 26 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 27 bark | amod |
| 27 | bark | bark | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 take | obj |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 haste | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 haste | cc |
| 30 | haste | haste | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Rest | obl |
| 31 | with | with | ADP | _ | 32 sail | case |
| 32 | sail | sail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 haste | nmod |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 oar | cc |
| 34 | oar | oar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 sail | conj |
| 35 | to | to | ADP | _ | 36 Ceuta | case |
| 36 | Ceuta | Ceuta | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 sail | nmod |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 pause | punct |
| 38 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 39 pause | cc |
| 39 | pause | pause | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 haste | conj |
| 40 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 42 give | mark |
| 41 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 42 give | nsubj |
| 42 | give | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Rest | advcl |
| 43 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 44 letter | det |
| 44 | letter | letter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 give | iobj |
| 45 | to | to | ADP | _ | 47 count | case |
| 46 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 47 count | det |
| 47 | count | count | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 42 give | advcl |
| 48 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 49 father | nmod:poss |
| 49 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 47 count | obj |
| 50 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Rest | punct |
| 51 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Rest | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not rest | imperative | you not said here | haste with sail to Ceuta and oar nor pause | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | not halt | infinitive | you not said here | vn stop-55.4-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | not spare | infinitive | you not said here | the spur | vn bill-54.5 «NP V NP NP.asset»: agent=Agent spur=Asset | ||||
| 4 | hie | present | thee | day | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | reach | present | thou | the sea | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent sea=Theme | ||||
| 6 | take | infinitive | you not said here | the first bark | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bark=Theme | ||||
| 7 | give | present | thou | this letter | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent letter=Theme | ||||
| 8 | count | infinitive | thou not said here | my father | vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent father=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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