Legends of the conquest of Spain, Story of the Marvellous and Portentous Tower., sentence 19
Would you have the mischiefs of this tower unbound, and let loose to shake the earth to its foundations?”
Who acts: you · What happens: have, let, shake · To what, where: mischiefs, earth, foundations
This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Story of the Marvellous and Portentous Tower.. 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 | Would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 have | aux |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 have | nsubj |
| 3 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 mischiefs | det |
| 5 | mischiefs | mischief | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 have | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 tower | case |
| 7 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 tower | det |
| 8 | tower | tower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 mischiefs | nmod |
| 9 | unbound | unbound | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 tower | amod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 let | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 let | cc |
| 12 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 have | parataxis |
| 13 | loose | loose | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 let | xcomp |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 shake | mark |
| 15 | shake | shake | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 loose | xcomp |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 earth | det |
| 17 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 shake | obj |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 foundations | case |
| 19 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 foundations | nmod:poss |
| 20 | foundations | foundation | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 shake | obl |
| 21 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 have | punct |
| 22 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | would | you | the mischiefs of this tower | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mischief=Patient | ||||
| 2 | let | infinitive | loose property | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | shake | to-infinitive | the earth | earth's foundations | vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent earth=Theme to foundation=Trajectory |
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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