Legends of the conquest of Spain, Chapter IX., sentence 32
Wherever they touched, Count Julian despatched emissaries, to assemble his friends and adherents at an appointed place.
Who acts: galleys, you, Julian · What happens: touch, count, despatch, assemble, appoint · To what, where: emissaries, friends, appointed place
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 (galleys, 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 | Wherever | wherever | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 touched | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 touched | nsubj |
| 3 | touched | touch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 Count | advcl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 touched | punct |
| 5 | Count | count | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | Julian | Julian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 despatched | nsubj |
| 7 | despatched | despatch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 Count | ccomp |
| 8 | emissaries | emissary | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 despatched | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 assemble | punct |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 assemble | mark |
| 11 | assemble | assemble | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 5 Count | conj |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 friends | nmod:poss |
| 13 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 assemble | obj |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 adherents | cc |
| 15 | adherents | adherent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 friends | conj |
| 16 | at | at | ADP | _ | 19 place | case |
| 17 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 place | det |
| 18 | appointed | appoint | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 place | amod |
| 19 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 assemble | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 Count | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | touch | past | galleys = galley | wherever property | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | count | imperative | you not said here | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: agent=Agent clause=Attribute | |||||
| 3 | despatch | past | Julian | emissaries | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | assemble | to-infinitive | you not said here | JULIAN's friends and adherents | a appointed place | vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent friend=Theme | |||
| 5 | appoint | participle | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=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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