Legends of the conquest of Spain, Chapter VIII., sentence 44
May desolation fall upon thy dwelling, and confusion and defeat upon thy realm!”
Who acts: May desolation · What happens: fall · To what, where: confusion, dwelling
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 (May desolation), 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 | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 desolation | amod |
| 2 | desolation | desolation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 fall | nsubj |
| 3 | fall | fall | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 6 dwelling | case |
| 5 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 6 dwelling | nmod:poss |
| 6 | dwelling | dwelling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 fall | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 confusion | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 confusion | cc |
| 9 | confusion | confusion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 fall | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 defeat | cc |
| 11 | defeat | defeat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 confusion | conj |
| 12 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 14 realm | case |
| 13 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 14 realm | nmod:poss |
| 14 | realm | realm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 confusion | nmod |
| 15 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 3 fall | punct |
| 16 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 fall | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fall | infinitive | May desolation | confusion upon thy realm and defeat | thy dwelling | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme upon dwelling=Location |
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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