Legends of the conquest of Spain, Chapter IX., sentence 12
The count assumed an air of soldier-like frankness and decision when he came into his presence.
Who acts: count · What happens: assume, come · To what, where: air, presence
This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Chapter IX.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (count), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 count | det |
| 2 | count | count | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 assumed | nsubj |
| 3 | assumed | assume | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 air | det |
| 5 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 assumed | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 frankness | case |
| 7 | soldier | soldier | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 like | compound |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 soldier | punct |
| 9 | like | like | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 frankness | amod |
| 10 | frankness | frankness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 air | nmod |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 decision | cc |
| 12 | decision | decision | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 frankness | conj |
| 13 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 15 came | advmod |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 came | nsubj |
| 15 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 assumed | advcl |
| 16 | into | into | ADP | _ | 18 presence | case |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 presence | nmod:poss |
| 18 | presence | presence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 came | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 assumed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | assume | past | the count | a air of like frankness and decision | vn adopt-93.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent air=Theme | ||||
| 2 | come | past | COUNT | COUNT's presence | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into presence=Initial_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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