Legends of the conquest of Spain, Don Roderick Receives an Extraordinary Embassy., sentence 23
Seek not then to indulge a rash and unprofitable curiosity, which is interdicted under such awful menaces.”
Who acts: you · What happens: not seek, indulge, interdict · To what, where: rash, such awful menaces
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 (you), 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 | Seek | seek | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 1 Seek | advmod |
| 3 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 indulge | advmod |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 indulge | mark |
| 5 | indulge | indulge | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Seek | ccomp |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 rash | det |
| 7 | rash | rash | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 indulge | obj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 curiosity | cc |
| 9 | unprofitable | unprofitable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 curiosity | amod |
| 10 | curiosity | curiosity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 rash | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 interdicted | punct |
| 12 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 interdicted | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 interdicted | aux:pass |
| 14 | interdicted | interdict | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 rash | acl |
| 15 | under | under | ADP | _ | 18 menaces | case |
| 16 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 menaces | amod |
| 17 | awful | awful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 menaces | amod |
| 18 | menaces | menace | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 interdicted | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Seek | punct |
| 20 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Seek | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not seek | imperative | you not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | indulge not said to happen | to-infinitive | you not said here | a rash and unprofitable curiosity | then | tree rules | |||
| 3 | interdict | present · passive | a rash and unprofitable curiosity | such awful menaces | 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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