Legends of the conquest of Spain, Chapter VIII., sentence 50
For my own part, woman as I am, I will assemble the followers of my house, nor rest until rivers of blood have washed away this stain.”
Who acts: I · What happens: be, assemble, wash away · To what, where: woman, followers, rivers
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), 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 | For | for | ADP | _ | 4 part | case |
| 2 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 part | nmod:poss |
| 3 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 part | amod |
| 4 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 assemble | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 woman | punct |
| 6 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 part | appos |
| 7 | as | as | ADP | _ | 8 I | case |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 woman | nmod |
| 9 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 woman | cop |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 part | punct |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 assemble | nsubj |
| 12 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 assemble | aux |
| 13 | assemble | assemble | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 followers | det |
| 15 | followers | follower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 assemble | obj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 house | case |
| 17 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 house | nmod:poss |
| 18 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 followers | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 rest | punct |
| 20 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 21 rest | cc |
| 21 | rest | rest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 assemble | conj |
| 22 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 27 washed | mark |
| 23 | rivers | river | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 washed | nsubj:pass |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 blood | case |
| 25 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 rivers | nmod |
| 26 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 washed | aux |
| 27 | washed | wash | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 assemble | advcl |
| 28 | away | away | ADV | _ | 27 washed | advmod |
| 29 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 30 stain | det |
| 30 | stain | stain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 washed | obj |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 assemble | punct |
| 32 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 assemble | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | woman | as I | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | assemble | future | I | the followers of my house | for my own part; rest conj | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent follower=Product for part=Beneficiary | |||
| 3 | wash away | present · perfect · passive | rivers of blood | this stain obj; away property | vn preparing-26.3-2 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: subject=Beneficiary stain=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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