Legends of the conquest of Spain, Story of the Marvellous and Portentous Tower., sentence 60
Above them was inscribed in Greek characters, “Rash monarch! behold the men who are to hurl thee from thy throne, and subdue thy kingdom!”
Who acts: men · What happens: inscribe, be, subdue · To what, where: backs, Greek characters, throne, kingdom
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 (men), 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 | Above | above | ADP | _ | 4 inscribed | mark |
| 2 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 inscribed | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 inscribed | aux:pass |
| 4 | inscribed | inscribe | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 hurl | advcl |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 characters | case |
| 6 | Greek | Greek | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 characters | amod |
| 7 | characters | character | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 inscribed | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 monarch | punct |
| 9 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 monarch | punct |
| 10 | Rash | rash | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 monarch | amod |
| 11 | monarch | monarch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 characters | nmod |
| 12 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 inscribed | punct |
| 13 | behold | behold | INTJ | _ | 15 men | discourse |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 men | det |
| 15 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 hurl | nsubj |
| 16 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 hurl | nsubj |
| 17 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 hurl | cop |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 hurl | mark |
| 19 | hurl | hurl | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 20 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 19 hurl | obj |
| 21 | from | from | ADP | _ | 23 throne | case |
| 22 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 23 throne | nmod:poss |
| 23 | throne | throne | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 hurl | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 subdue | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 subdue | cc |
| 26 | subdue | subdue | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 19 hurl | parataxis |
| 27 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 28 kingdom | nmod:poss |
| 28 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 subdue | obj |
| 29 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 26 subdue | punct |
| 30 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 26 subdue | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | inscribe | past · passive | backs = back | Greek characters Rash monarch | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.theme PP.destination»: subject=Theme in character=Destination | ||||
| 2 | is in a quote | present | the men | thy throne | who nsubj; thee obj; hurl property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | subdue in a quote | infinitive | thy kingdom | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kingdom=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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