Legends of the conquest of Spain, Don Roderick Receives an Extraordinary Embassy., sentence 26
My coffers are exhausted; I have need of supply; and surely it would be an acceptable act in the eyes of Heaven, to draw forth this wealth which lies buried under profane and necromantic spells, and consecrate it to religious purposes.”
Who acts: I, need, wealth · What happens: exhaust, have, be, draw, lie, bury · To what, where: coffers, need, acceptable act, eyes, wealth, profane spells
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 (I, need, wealth), 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 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 coffers | nmod:poss |
| 2 | coffers | coffer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 exhausted | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 exhausted | aux:pass |
| 4 | exhausted | exhaust | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 7 have | punct |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 have | nsubj |
| 7 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 exhausted | conj |
| 8 | need | need | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 have | obj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 supply | case |
| 10 | supply | supply | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 need | nmod |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 act | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 act | cc |
| 13 | surely | surely | ADV | _ | 19 act | advmod |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 act | nsubj |
| 15 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 act | aux |
| 16 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 19 act | cop |
| 17 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 act | det |
| 18 | acceptable | acceptable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 act | amod |
| 19 | act | act | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 exhausted | parataxis |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 eyes | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 eyes | det |
| 22 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 act | nmod |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 Heaven | case |
| 24 | Heaven | Heaven | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 eyes | nmod |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 draw | punct |
| 26 | to | to | PART | _ | 27 draw | mark |
| 27 | draw | draw | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 4 exhausted | parataxis |
| 28 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 27 draw | advmod |
| 29 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 30 wealth | det |
| 30 | wealth | wealth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 draw | obj |
| 31 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 32 lies | nsubj |
| 32 | lies | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 30 wealth | acl:relcl |
| 33 | buried | bury | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 32 lies | xcomp |
| 34 | under | under | ADP | _ | 38 spells | case |
| 35 | profane | profane | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 spells | amod |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 necromantic | cc |
| 37 | necromantic | necromantic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 profane | conj |
| 38 | spells | spell | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 buried | obl |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 consecrate | punct |
| 40 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 41 consecrate | cc |
| 41 | consecrate | consecrate | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 27 draw | conj |
| 42 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 41 consecrate | obj |
| 43 | to | to | ADP | _ | 45 purposes | case |
| 44 | religious | religious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 45 purposes | amod |
| 45 | purposes | purpose | NOUN | Number=Plur | 41 consecrate | obl |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 exhausted | punct |
| 47 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 exhausted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | exhaust | present · passive | My coffers | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | have | present | I | need of supply | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent need=Patient | ||||
| 3 | is a | would | need | a acceptable act | the eyes of Heaven | surely property | tree rules | ||
| 4 | draw | to-infinitive | this wealth | forth property | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wealth=Theme | ||||
| 5 | lie | present | this wealth | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | bury | participle | this wealth not said here | profane spells | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent under spell=Destination | ||||
| 7 | consecrate | infinitive | wealth | to religious purposes | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||||
| 8 | need | supply | nom need «state transitive»: of=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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