Legends of the conquest of Spain, Story of the Marvellous and Portentous Tower., sentence 49

The hand of none but a king can open it; but let him beware! for marvellous events will be revealed to him, which are to take place before his death.”

Who acts: hand · What happens: open, let, beware, reveal, be, die · To what, where: casket, hand

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 (hand), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 hand	det
2	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 open	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 none	case
4	none	none	PRON	PronType=Neg	2 hand	nmod
5	but	but	CCONJ	_	7 king	cc
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 king	det
7	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 none	conj
8	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 open	aux
9	open	open	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 open	obj
11	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 let	punct
12	but	but	CCONJ	_	13 let	cc
13	let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	9 open	conj
14	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 let	obj
15	beware	beware	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 let	xcomp
16	!	!	PUNCT	_	9 open	punct
17	for	for	ADP	_	19 events	case
18	marvellous	marvellous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 events	amod
19	events	event	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 revealed	obl
20	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 revealed	aux
21	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	22 revealed	aux:pass
22	revealed	reveal	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 open	parataxis
23	to	to	ADP	_	24 him	case
24	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 revealed	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 take	punct
26	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	29 take	nsubj
27	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	29 take	cop
28	to	to	PART	_	29 take	mark
29	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 revealed	conj
30	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 take	obj
31	before	before	ADP	_	33 death	case
32	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 death	nmod:poss
33	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 take	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 open	punct
35	”	"	PUNCT	_	9 open	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	open	can	the hand of none a king	casket				vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=Theme
2	let	infinitive	the hand of none a king not said here	hand				tree rules
3	beware	infinitive	hand not said here					vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
4	reveal	future · passive			hand		for marvellous events	vn confess-37.10 «NP V PP.recipient»: to he=Recipient
5	is	present				before hand's death	which nsubj; place obj; take property	tree rules
6	die		hand					nom death «event intransitive»: poss=agent

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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Pragmatics

Legends of the conquest of Spain, Story of the Marvellous and Portentous Tower., sentence 49