Legends of the conquest of Spain, Don Roderick Receives an Extraordinary Embassy., sentence 22
A knowledge of it, therefore, is not material to the welfare of your kingdom.
Who acts: knowledge · What happens: not be · To what, where: material
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 (knowledge), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 knowledge | det |
| 2 | knowledge | knowledge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 material | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 it | case |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 knowledge | nmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 knowledge | punct |
| 6 | therefore | therefore | ADV | _ | 2 knowledge | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 knowledge | punct |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 material | cop |
| 9 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 10 material | advmod |
| 10 | material | material | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 welfare | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 welfare | det |
| 13 | welfare | welfare | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 material | nmod |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 kingdom | case |
| 15 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 kingdom | nmod:poss |
| 16 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 welfare | nmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 material | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is a | present | a knowledge of mystery | material | to the welfare of your kingdom | tree rules |
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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