Legends of the conquest of Spain, Don Roderick Receives an Extraordinary Embassy., sentence 19
“Father,” said the king, “I have an earnest desire to penetrate the mystery of this tower.”
Who acts: Father · What happens: say, have, penetrate · To what, where: king, earnest desire, mystery · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Father), 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 Father | punct |
| 2 | Father | Father | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 said | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Father | punct |
| 4 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Father | punct |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 king | det |
| 7 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 said | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 have | punct |
| 9 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 have | punct |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 have | nsubj |
| 11 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 said | ccomp |
| 12 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 desire | det |
| 13 | earnest | earn | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 14 desire | amod |
| 14 | desire | desire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 have | obj |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 penetrate | mark |
| 16 | penetrate | penetrate | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 desire | acl |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 mystery | det |
| 18 | mystery | mystery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 penetrate | obj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 tower | case |
| 20 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 21 tower | det |
| 21 | tower | tower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 mystery | nmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 have | punct |
| 23 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Father | the king | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | have in a quote | present | Father | a earnest desire | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent desire=Patient | ||||
| 3 | penetrate in a quote | to-infinitive | Father not said here | the mystery of this tower | vn poke-19 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mystery=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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