Legends of the conquest of Spain, Don Roderick Receives an Extraordinary Embassy., sentence 28
“Father,” said he, “it is in vain you attempt to dissuade me.
Who acts: Father, counsel, you · What happens: say, be, attempt, dissuade · To what, where: Father · 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, counsel, 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | 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 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 said | nsubj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 vain | punct |
| 8 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 vain | punct |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 vain | nsubj |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 vain | cop |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 vain | case |
| 12 | vain | vain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 said | ccomp |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 attempt | nsubj |
| 14 | attempt | attempt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 vain | conj |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 dissuade | mark |
| 16 | dissuade | dissuade | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 attempt | xcomp |
| 17 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 dissuade | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Father | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is in a quote | present | counsel | vain property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | attempt in a quote | present | you | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | dissuade not said to happen, in a quote | to-infinitive | you not said here | Father | vn discourage-64.5 «NP V NP PP.eventuality»: agent=Causer i=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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