Legends of the conquest of Spain, Story of the Marvellous and Portentous Tower., sentence 56
“If good be destined me, I shall enjoy it by anticipation: if evil, I shall arm myself to meet it.”
Who acts: Roderick · What happens: destine, enjoy, arm, meet · To what, where: good, veil, Roderick
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 (Roderick), 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 | _ | 10 enjoy | punct |
| 2 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 5 destined | mark |
| 3 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 destined | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 destined | aux:pass |
| 5 | destined | destine | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 enjoy | advcl |
| 6 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 destined | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 destined | punct |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 enjoy | nsubj |
| 9 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 enjoy | aux |
| 10 | enjoy | enjoy | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 enjoy | obj |
| 12 | by | by | ADP | _ | 13 anticipation | case |
| 13 | anticipation | anticipation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 enjoy | obl |
| 14 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 20 arm | punct |
| 15 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 16 evil | mark |
| 16 | evil | evil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 arm | advcl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 evil | punct |
| 18 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 arm | nsubj |
| 19 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 arm | aux |
| 20 | arm | arm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 enjoy | conj |
| 21 | myself | myself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes | 20 arm | obl:unmarked |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 meet | mark |
| 23 | meet | meet | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 enjoy | advcl |
| 24 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 meet | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 enjoy | punct |
| 26 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 enjoy | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | destine a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | infinitive · passive | good | me obj | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | enjoy in a quote | shall | Roderick | veil | by anticipation | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | arm in a quote | shall | Roderick | Roderick | evil advcl | tree rules | |||
| 4 | meet in a quote | to-infinitive | Roderick not said here | veil | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Co-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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