Legends of the conquest of Spain, Story of the Marvellous and Portentous Tower., sentence 89
God alone knoweth the truth of these things; I speak nothing but what has been handed down to me from times of old.”
Who acts: God, I · What happens: know, speak, hand down · To what, where: truth, nothing, me · 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 (God, 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 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 knoweth | nsubj |
| 2 | alone | alone | ADV | _ | 3 knoweth | advmod |
| 3 | knoweth | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 truth | det |
| 5 | truth | truth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 knoweth | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 things | case |
| 7 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 8 things | det |
| 8 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 truth | nmod |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 speak | punct |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 speak | nsubj |
| 11 | speak | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 knoweth | conj |
| 12 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 11 speak | obj |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 handed | cc |
| 14 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 17 handed | obj |
| 15 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 handed | aux |
| 16 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 17 handed | aux:pass |
| 17 | handed | hand | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 speak | conj |
| 18 | down | down | ADP | _ | 17 handed | compound:prt |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 me | case |
| 20 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 handed | obl |
| 21 | from | from | ADP | _ | 22 times | case |
| 22 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 handed | obl |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 old | case |
| 24 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 times | nmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 knoweth | punct |
| 26 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 knoweth | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | present | God | the truth of this things | alone property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer truth=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | speak speech: other | present | I | nothing | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | hand down | present · perfect · passive | I not said here | me | time | what obj | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: what=Theme to i=Destination |
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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