Legends of the conquest of Spain, Traitorous Message of Count Julian., sentence 2
The confident defiance of Don Roderick increased his surprise.
Who acts: confident defiance, defiance · What happens: increase, surprise · To what, where: surprise
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 (confident defiance, defiance), 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 | 3 defiance | det |
| 2 | confident | confident | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 defiance | amod |
| 3 | defiance | defiance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 increased | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 Don | case |
| 5 | Don | Don | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 defiance | nmod |
| 6 | Roderick | Roderick | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Don | flat |
| 7 | increased | increase | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 surprise | nmod:poss |
| 9 | surprise | surprise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 increased | obj |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 increased | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | increase | past | the confident defiance of Don | defiance's surprise | vn caused_calibratable_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Causer surprise=Patient | ||||
| 2 | surprise | defiance | nom surprise «feeling 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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