Legends of the conquest of Spain, Terror of the Country.—roderick Rouses Himself to Arms., sentence 21
His queen, Exilona, accompanied him; for she craved permission to remain in one of the cities of Andalusia, that she might be near her lord in this time of peril.
Who acts: queen · What happens: accompany, crave, remain, be · To what, where: Roderick, permission
This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Terror of the Country.—roderick Rouses Himself to Arms.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (queen), 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 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 queen | nmod:poss |
| 2 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 accompanied | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 Exilona | punct |
| 4 | Exilona | Exilona | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 queen | appos |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 queen | punct |
| 6 | accompanied | accompany | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 accompanied | obj |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 craved | punct |
| 9 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 11 craved | mark |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 craved | nsubj |
| 11 | craved | crave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 accompanied | conj |
| 12 | permission | permission | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 craved | obj |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 remain | mark |
| 14 | remain | remain | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 craved | xcomp |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 one | case |
| 16 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 remain | obl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 cities | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 cities | det |
| 19 | cities | city | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 one | nmod |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 Andalusia | case |
| 21 | Andalusia | Andalusia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 cities | nmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 lord | punct |
| 23 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 29 lord | mark |
| 24 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 lord | nsubj |
| 25 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 29 lord | aux |
| 26 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 29 lord | cop |
| 27 | near | near | ADP | _ | 29 lord | case |
| 28 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 lord | nmod:poss |
| 29 | lord | lord | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 craved | obl |
| 30 | in | in | ADP | _ | 32 time | case |
| 31 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 32 time | det |
| 32 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 lord | nmod |
| 33 | of | of | ADP | _ | 34 peril | case |
| 34 | peril | peril | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 time | nmod |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 accompanied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | accompany | past | Roderick's queen | Roderick | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | ||||
| 2 | crave | past | queen | permission | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | remain | to-infinitive | queen not said here | in one of the cities of Andalusia | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in one=Location | ||||
| 4 | is | might | queen | time | near queen's lord | tree rules |
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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