Legends of the conquest of Spain, Story of the Marvellous and Portentous Tower., sentence 38
On its breast was a scroll, whereon was inscribed in large letters, “I do my duty.”
Who acts: King · What happens: be, inscribe, do · To what, where: scroll, breast, large letters, duty
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 (King), 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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 3 breast | case |
| 2 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 breast | nmod:poss |
| 3 | breast | breast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 scroll | obl |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 scroll | cop |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 scroll | det |
| 6 | scroll | scroll | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 inscribed | punct |
| 8 | whereon | whereon | ADV | PronType=Int | 10 inscribed | advmod |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 inscribed | aux:pass |
| 10 | inscribed | inscribe | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 scroll | acl:relcl |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 letters | case |
| 12 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 letters | amod |
| 13 | letters | letter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 inscribed | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 do | punct |
| 15 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 do | punct |
| 16 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 do | nsubj |
| 17 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 inscribed | conj |
| 18 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 duty | nmod:poss |
| 19 | duty | duty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 do | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 scroll | punct |
| 21 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 scroll | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | a scroll | figure's breast | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | inscribe | past · passive | large letters | whereon property | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.theme PP.destination»: in letter=Destination | ||||
| 3 | do in a quote | present | King | my duty | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent duty=Eventuality |
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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