Legends of the conquest of Spain, Chapter VIII., sentence 43
“A father’s curse,” said he, “be upon thee and thine!
Who acts: curse, father · What happens: say, be, curse · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (curse, father), 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 | _ | 8 said | punct |
| 2 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 father | det |
| 3 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 curse | nmod:poss |
| 4 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 3 father | case |
| 5 | curse | curse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 said | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 curse | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 curse | punct |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 said | nsubj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 thee | punct |
| 11 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 thee | punct |
| 12 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 14 thee | cop |
| 13 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 14 thee | case |
| 14 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 8 said | ccomp |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 thine | cc |
| 16 | thine | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 14 thee | acl:relcl |
| 17 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: express | past | a father's curse | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is in a quote | infinitive | upon thee; thine acl:relcl | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | curse in a quote | a father | nom curse «communication transitive»: poss=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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