Legends of the conquest of Spain, Story of the Marvellous and Portentous Tower., sentence 22
“Come what come may,” exclaimed Don Roderick, “I am resolved to penetrate the mystery of this tower.”
Who acts: Don · What happens: come, be, exclaim, resolve, penetrate · To what, where: Don, mystery · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Don), 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 | _ | 2 Come | punct |
| 2 | Come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 exclaimed | ccomp |
| 3 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 2 Come | advcl |
| 4 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 what | cop |
| 5 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 what | aux |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Come | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Come | punct |
| 8 | exclaimed | exclaim | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | Don | Don | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 exclaimed | obj |
| 10 | Roderick | Roderick | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Don | flat |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 resolved | punct |
| 12 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 resolved | punct |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 resolved | nsubj |
| 14 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 resolved | aux:pass |
| 15 | resolved | resolve | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 exclaimed | parataxis |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 penetrate | mark |
| 17 | penetrate | penetrate | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 resolved | xcomp |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 mystery | det |
| 19 | mystery | mystery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 penetrate | obj |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 tower | case |
| 21 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 22 tower | det |
| 22 | tower | tower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 mystery | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 exclaimed | punct |
| 24 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 exclaimed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come in a quote | infinitive | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | is a in a quote | may · present | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | exclaim speech: express | past | Don | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | resolve in a quote | present · passive | Don | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | penetrate in a quote | to-infinitive | the mystery of this tower | vn poke-19 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mystery=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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