Legends of the conquest of Spain, Chapter VIII., sentence 25
May evil overtake me, and infamy rest upon my name, if I cease until I have full measure of revenge.”
Who acts: I, my · What happens: overtake, rest, cease, have, name, measure · To what, where: me, name, full measure, revenge
This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Chapter VIII.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, my), 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 | May | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 overtake | aux |
| 2 | evil | evil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 overtake | compound |
| 3 | overtake | overtake | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 overtake | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 rest | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 rest | cc |
| 7 | infamy | infamy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 rest | compound |
| 8 | rest | rest | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 overtake | conj |
| 9 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 11 name | case |
| 10 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 name | nmod:poss |
| 11 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 rest | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 cease | punct |
| 13 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 15 cease | mark |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 cease | nsubj |
| 15 | cease | cease | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 rest | conj |
| 16 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 18 have | mark |
| 17 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 have | nsubj |
| 18 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 cease | advcl |
| 19 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 measure | amod |
| 20 | measure | measure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 have | obj |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 revenge | case |
| 22 | revenge | revenge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 measure | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 overtake | punct |
| 24 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 overtake | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | overtake | may | me | evil compound | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | rest | present | my name | infamy compound | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon name=Location | ||||
| 3 | cease a condition, not said to happen | present | I | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | have | present | I | full measure of revenge | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent measure=Patient | ||||
| 5 | name | my | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 6 | measure | revenge | nom measure «act 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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