Legends of the conquest of Spain, Don Roderick Receives an Extraordinary Embassy., sentence 20
The worthy prelate shook his hoary head: “Beware, my son,” said he; “there are secrets hidden from man for his good.
Who acts: worthy prelate, prelate · What happens: shake, beware, say, be, hide · To what, where: hoary head, secrets · 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 (worthy prelate, prelate), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 prelate | det |
| 2 | worthy | worthy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 prelate | amod |
| 3 | prelate | prelate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 shook | nsubj |
| 4 | shook | shake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 head | nmod:poss |
| 6 | hoary | hoary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 head | amod |
| 7 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 shook | obj |
| 8 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 10 Beware | punct |
| 9 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 Beware | punct |
| 10 | Beware | beware | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 4 shook | parataxis |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 son | punct |
| 12 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 son | nmod:poss |
| 13 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 Beware | vocative |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 Beware | punct |
| 15 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 Beware | punct |
| 16 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 shook | parataxis |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 said | nsubj |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 secrets | punct |
| 19 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 are | punct |
| 20 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 21 are | expl |
| 21 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 secrets | cop |
| 22 | secrets | secret | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 shook | obl |
| 23 | hidden | hide | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 secrets | acl |
| 24 | from | from | ADP | _ | 25 man | case |
| 25 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 hidden | obl |
| 26 | for | for | ADP | _ | 28 good | case |
| 27 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 good | nmod:poss |
| 28 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 man | nmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 shook | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shake | past | the worthy prelate | prelate's hoary head | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | beware in a quote | infinitive | my son vocative | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | prelate | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | is a in a quote | present | secrets | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | hide in a quote | participle | secrets not said here | from man for prelate's good | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent from man=Beneficiary |
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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