Legends of the conquest of Spain, Don Roderick Receives an Extraordinary Embassy., sentence 14
This, O king, is all we have to relate; and our errand is to entreat thee to repair to the tower and affix thy lock to the portal, as has been done by all thy predecessors.”
Who acts: king, errand, predecessors · What happens: be, relate, repair, do
This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Don Roderick Receives an Extraordinary Embassy.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, errand, predecessors), 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 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 king | det |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 This | punct |
| 3 | O | o | INTJ | _ | 4 king | discourse |
| 4 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 have | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 king | punct |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 have | cop |
| 7 | all | all | ADV | _ | 9 have | advmod |
| 8 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 have | nsubj |
| 9 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 relate | mark |
| 11 | relate | relate | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 have | xcomp |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 entreat | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 entreat | cc |
| 14 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 errand | nmod:poss |
| 15 | errand | errand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 entreat | nsubj |
| 16 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 entreat | cop |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 entreat | mark |
| 18 | entreat | entreat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 have | conj |
| 19 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 18 entreat | obj |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 repair | mark |
| 21 | repair | repair | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 entreat | xcomp |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 tower | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 tower | det |
| 24 | tower | tower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 repair | obl |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 affix | cc |
| 26 | affix | affix | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 tower | conj |
| 27 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 28 lock | nmod:poss |
| 28 | lock | lock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 tower | conj |
| 29 | to | to | ADP | _ | 31 portal | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 portal | det |
| 31 | portal | portal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 repair | obl |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 done | punct |
| 33 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 36 done | mark |
| 34 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 36 done | aux |
| 35 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 36 done | aux:pass |
| 36 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 entreat | parataxis |
| 37 | by | by | ADP | _ | 40 predecessors | case |
| 38 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 40 predecessors | det |
| 39 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 40 predecessors | nmod:poss |
| 40 | predecessors | predecessor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 36 done | obl |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 36 done | punct |
| 42 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 36 done | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | this king | we nsubj; all, have property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | relate | to-infinitive | this king not said here | vn relate-86.2-2 «NP V PP.co-theme»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | is | present | our errand | thee obj; entreat property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | repair | to-infinitive | our errand not said here | to the tower and affix and thy lock; to the portal | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | do | present · perfect · passive | thy predecessors | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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