Legends of the conquest of Spain, Opening, sentence 42
Count Julian.—His Fortunes in Africa.—He hears of the Dishonour of his Child.—His Conduct thereupon 66
Who acts: you, Julian · What happens: count, hear, conduct · To what, where: Julian
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 (you, Julian), 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 | Count | count | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | Julian | Julian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Count | obj |
| 3 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Count | punct |
| 4 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 Fortunes | punct |
| 5 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 Fortunes | nmod:poss |
| 6 | Fortunes | fortune | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Count | obl |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 Africa | case |
| 8 | Africa | Africa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Fortunes | nmod |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Count | punct |
| 10 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 hears | punct |
| 11 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 hears | nsubj |
| 12 | hears | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Count | parataxis |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 Dishonour | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Dishonour | det |
| 15 | Dishonour | Dishonour | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 hears | obl |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 Child | case |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 Child | nmod:poss |
| 18 | Child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 Dishonour | nmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Count | punct |
| 20 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 1 Count | punct |
| 21 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 Conduct | nmod:poss |
| 22 | Conduct | conduct | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Count | obj |
| 23 | thereupon | thereupon | ADV | _ | 24 66 | advmod |
| 24 | 66 | 66 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 1 Count | obl |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | count | imperative | you not said here | Julian | Julian's Fortunes in Africa obl; 66 obl; Julian's Conduct obj | tree rules | |||
| 2 | hear | present | Julian | of the Dishonour of Julian's Child | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer of dishonour=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | conduct | Julian | nom conduct «act 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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