--- title: Wearied and wayworn, I lay down one night to sleep beneath a palm tr… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics description: Wearied and wayworn, I lay down one night to sleep beneath a palm tree, by the side of a fountain, when I was awakened by a voice saying unto me, in soft accents, ‘Son of sorrow, why sleepest thou?’ Who acts: I, voice. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, voice), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg77685:15:17 # text = Wearied and wayworn, I lay down one night to sleep beneath a palm tree, by the side of a fountain, when I was awakened by a voice saying unto me, in soft accents, ‘Son of sorrow, why sleepest thou?’ 1 Wearied weary VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 6 advcl _ _ 2 and and CCONJ CC _ 3 cc _ _ 3 wayworn wayworn VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 1 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 6 punct _ _ 5 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 6 nsubj _ _ 6 lay lay VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 down down ADV RB _ 6 advmod _ _ 8 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 9 nummod _ _ 9 night night NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obl:unmarked _ _ 10 to to PART TO _ 11 mark _ _ 11 sleep sleep VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 advcl _ _ 12 beneath beneath ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 13 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 14 palm palm NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 compound _ _ 15 tree tree NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 16 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 17 by by ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 side side NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ _ 20 of of ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 21 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 22 fountain fountain NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 23 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 24 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 27 advmod _ _ 25 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 27 nsubj _ _ 26 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 27 aux:pass _ _ 27 awakened awaken VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 19 acl:relcl _ _ 28 by by ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 29 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 voice voice NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obl _ _ 31 saying say VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 30 acl _ _ 32 unto unto ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 33 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 31 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 34 , , PUNCT , _ 37 punct _ _ 35 in in ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 36 soft soft ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 37 amod _ _ 37 accents accent NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 38 , , PUNCT , _ 40 punct _ _ 39 ‘ ‘ PUNCT : _ 40 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 40 Son Son PROPN NNP Number=Sing 37 nmod _ _ 41 of of ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 42 sorrow sorrow NOUN NN Number=Sing 40 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 43 , , PUNCT , _ 45 punct _ _ 44 why why ADV WRB PronType=Int 45 advmod _ _ 45 sleepest sleep VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 40 acl:relcl _ _ 46 thou thou PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch 45 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 47 ? ? PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 48 ’ ' PUNCT '' _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **weary** | participle | I *not said here* | | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | | 2 | **wayworn** | participle | I *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **lay down** | present | I | | | | night | down *property* | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **sleep** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | | | | | beneath a palm tree; by the side of a fountain | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **awaken** | past · passive | a voice | I | | soft accents Son of sorrow | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location subject=Theme | | 6 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | a voice *not said here* | | | | | unto me | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 7 | **sleep** | present | | thou | | | | | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thou=Theme | 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. - ← previous: [sentence 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg77685/15/16/) - next →: [sentence 18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg77685/15/18/) - ↑ back to [Chapter XIV.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg77685/15/)