Legends of the conquest of Spain, Opening, sentence 22
He has thought proper to throw these records into the form of legends, not claiming for them the authenticity of sober history, yet giving nothing that has not historical foundation.
Who acts: AUTHOR · What happens: think, throw, not claim, give, have, form · To what, where: records, form, authenticity, nothing, historical foundation, legends
This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Opening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (AUTHOR), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 thought | nsubj |
| 2 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 thought | aux |
| 3 | thought | think | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | proper | properly | ADV | _ | 3 thought | advmod |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 throw | mark |
| 6 | throw | throw | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 thought | xcomp |
| 7 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 8 records | det |
| 8 | records | record | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 throw | obj |
| 9 | into | into | ADP | _ | 11 form | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 form | det |
| 11 | form | form | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 throw | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 legends | case |
| 13 | legends | legend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 form | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 claiming | punct |
| 15 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 16 claiming | advmod |
| 16 | claiming | claim | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 throw | advcl |
| 17 | for | for | ADP | _ | 18 them | case |
| 18 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 claiming | obl |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 authenticity | det |
| 20 | authenticity | authenticity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 claiming | obj |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 history | case |
| 22 | sober | sober | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 history | amod |
| 23 | history | history | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 authenticity | nmod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 giving | punct |
| 25 | yet | yet | CCONJ | _ | 26 giving | cc |
| 26 | giving | give | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 16 claiming | conj |
| 27 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 26 giving | obj |
| 28 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 29 has | nsubj |
| 29 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 nothing | acl:relcl |
| 30 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 31 historical | advmod |
| 31 | historical | historical | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 foundation | amod |
| 32 | foundation | foundation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 has | obj |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | present · perfect | AUTHOR | properly property | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | ||||
| 2 | throw | to-infinitive | AUTHOR not said here | this records | into the form of legends result | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Causer record=Theme into form=Result | |||
| 3 | not claim speech: other | gerund | AUTHOR not said here | the authenticity of sober history | for LEGENDS = legend | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent authenticity=Topic | |||
| 4 | give | gerund | AUTHOR not said here | nothing | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Theme | ||||
| 5 | have | present | historical foundation | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent foundation=Patient | |||||
| 6 | form | legends | nom form «communication 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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