Legends of the conquest of Spain, Chapter IX., sentence 21
The whole may be a pretended treason to draw us on to our destruction.
Who acts: whole, our · What happens: pretend, be, draw, destroy · To what, where: pretended treason, us, destruction
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 (whole, our), 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 whole | det |
| 2 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 treason | nsubj |
| 3 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 treason | aux |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 treason | cop |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 treason | det |
| 6 | pretended | pretend | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 treason | amod |
| 7 | treason | treason | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 draw | mark |
| 9 | draw | draw | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 7 treason | acl |
| 10 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 draw | obj |
| 11 | on | on | ADP | _ | 14 destruction | case |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 on | fixed |
| 13 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 destruction | nmod:poss |
| 14 | destruction | destruction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 draw | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 treason | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pretend | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | is a | may | the whole | a pretended treason | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | draw | to-infinitive | us | our destruction | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent we=Theme on destruction=Destination | ||||
| 4 | destroy | our | nom destruction «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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