Legends of the conquest of Spain, Story of the Marvellous and Portentous Tower., sentence 88
Let them consult, moreover, the venerable historian Bleda, and the cloud of other Catholic Spanish writers, who have treated of this event, and they will find I have related nothing that has not been printed and published under the inspection and sanction of our holy mother church.
Who acts: you, sources, I · What happens: let, consult, treat, find, have, not print · To what, where: sources, Bleda, other Catholic Spanish writers, nothing, that, inspection · 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 (you, sources, I), 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 | Let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Let | obj |
| 3 | consult | consult | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Let | xcomp |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 Bleda | punct |
| 5 | moreover | moreover | ADV | _ | 10 Bleda | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 Bleda | punct |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 historian | det |
| 8 | venerable | venerable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 historian | amod |
| 9 | historian | historian | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 Bleda | nmod:desc |
| 10 | Bleda | Bleda | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 consult | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 cloud | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 cloud | cc |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 cloud | det |
| 14 | cloud | cloud | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Let | obl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 writers | case |
| 16 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 writers | amod |
| 17 | Catholic | catholic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 writers | amod |
| 18 | Spanish | Spanish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 writers | amod |
| 19 | writers | writer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 cloud | nmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 treated | punct |
| 21 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 23 treated | nsubj:pass |
| 22 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 treated | aux |
| 23 | treated | treat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 writers | parataxis |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 event | case |
| 25 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 26 event | det |
| 26 | event | event | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 treated | obl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 find | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 find | cc |
| 29 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 find | nsubj |
| 30 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 31 find | aux |
| 31 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 treated | parataxis |
| 32 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 33 have | nsubj |
| 33 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 31 find | ccomp |
| 34 | related | related | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 nothing | amod |
| 35 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 33 have | obj |
| 36 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 40 printed | nsubj:pass |
| 37 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 40 printed | aux |
| 38 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 40 printed | advmod |
| 39 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 40 printed | aux:pass |
| 40 | printed | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 35 nothing | parataxis | |
| 41 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 42 published | cc |
| 42 | published | publish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 40 printed | conj |
| 43 | under | under | ADP | _ | 45 inspection | case |
| 44 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 45 inspection | det |
| 45 | inspection | inspection | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 published | obl |
| 46 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 47 sanction | cc |
| 47 | sanction | sanction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 inspection | conj |
| 48 | of | of | ADP | _ | 52 church | case |
| 49 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 52 church | nmod:poss |
| 50 | holy | holy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 52 church | amod |
| 51 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 52 church | compound |
| 52 | church | church | NOUN | Number=Sing | 47 sanction | nmod |
| 53 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let | imperative | you not said here | sources = source | the cloud of other Catholic Spanish writers obl | tree rules | |||
| 2 | consult | infinitive | sources = source not said here | Bleda the venerable historian | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | treat | present · perfect · passive | other Catholic Spanish writers | of this event | vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | find | future | sources = source | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 5 | have | present | I | nothing | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Patient | ||||
| 6 | not print | present · perfect · passive | that | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 7 | publish | participle | the inspection and sanction of our holy mother church | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 8 | cloud | other Catholic Spanish writers | nom cloud «phenomenon transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 9 | sanction | our holy mother church | nom sanction «communication transitive»: of=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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