Legends of the conquest of Spain, Traitorous Message of Count Julian., sentence 14
Then tell him Count Julian greets him as a brother, and demands how the wrongs of his daughter Florinda are to be redressed.
Who acts: you, Julian · What happens: tell, count, greet, demand, redress · To what, where: Cordova, wrongs · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Traitorous Message of Count Julian.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 2 tell | advmod |
| 2 | tell | tell | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 tell | iobj |
| 4 | Count | count | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 tell | xcomp |
| 5 | Julian | Julian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 greets | nsubj |
| 6 | greets | greet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 Count | ccomp |
| 7 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 greets | obj |
| 8 | as | as | ADP | _ | 10 brother | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 brother | det |
| 10 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 greets | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 demands | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 demands | cc |
| 13 | demands | demand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 tell | advcl |
| 14 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 24 redressed | advmod |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 wrongs | det |
| 16 | wrongs | wrong | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 redressed | nsubj:pass |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 daughter | case |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 19 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 wrongs | nmod |
| 20 | Florinda | Florinda | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 daughter | appos |
| 21 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 redressed | aux:pass |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 redressed | mark |
| 23 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 24 redressed | aux:pass |
| 24 | redressed | redress | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 demands | advcl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 tell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | imperative | you not said here | Cordova | then | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | |||
| 2 | count not said to happen | infinitive | you not said here | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: agent=Agent clause=Attribute | |||||
| 3 | greet speech: greet | present | Julian | Cordova | as a brother | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent he=Theme as brother=Attribute | |||
| 4 | demand speech: request | present | you not said here | vn require-103-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | redress | present · passive | the wrongs of Cordova's daughter | vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient |
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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