Legends of the conquest of Spain, Chapter XI., sentence 13
Theodomir was frank and abrupt in speech, for the most of his life had been passed far from courts.
Who acts: Theodomir · What happens: be, pass · To what, where: speech, courts
This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Chapter XI.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Theodomir), 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 | Theodomir | Theodomir | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 frank | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 frank | cop |
| 3 | frank | frank | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 abrupt | cc |
| 5 | abrupt | abrupt | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 frank | conj |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 speech | case |
| 7 | speech | speech | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 abrupt | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 passed | punct |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 most | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 most | det |
| 11 | most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 17 passed | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 life | case |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 life | nmod:poss |
| 14 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 most | nmod |
| 15 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 passed | aux |
| 16 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 17 passed | aux:pass |
| 17 | passed | pass | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 frank | conj |
| 18 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 17 passed | advmod |
| 19 | from | from | ADP | _ | 20 courts | case |
| 20 | courts | court | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 passed | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 frank | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Theodomir | frank property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | Theodomir not said here | speech | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | pass | past · perfect · passive | Theodomir not said here | courts | for the most of Theodomir's life; far property | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V PP.initial_location»: from court=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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