Legends of the conquest of Spain, Traitorous Message of Count Julian., sentence 25
When he beheld the ring of Count Julian, and heard the words of his message, he saw that the page was one in whom he might confide.
Who acts: page · What happens: behold, hear, see, be, confide, word · To what, where: ring, words, one, message · 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 (page), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 beheld | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 beheld | nsubj |
| 3 | beheld | behold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 saw | advcl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 ring | det |
| 5 | ring | ring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 beheld | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 Julian | case |
| 7 | Count | Count | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Julian | compound |
| 8 | Julian | Julian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 ring | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 heard | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 heard | cc |
| 11 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 beheld | conj |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 words | det |
| 13 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 heard | obj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 message | case |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 message | nmod:poss |
| 16 | message | message | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 words | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 beheld | punct |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 saw | nsubj |
| 19 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 20 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 24 one | mark |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 page | det |
| 22 | page | page | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 one | nsubj |
| 23 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 one | cop |
| 24 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 19 saw | ccomp |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 whom | case |
| 26 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 24 one | nmod |
| 27 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 confide | nsubj |
| 28 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 29 confide | aux |
| 29 | confide | confide | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 whom | acl:relcl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 19 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | behold | past | page | the ring of Count Julian | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer ring=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | hear | past | page not said here | the words of page's message | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer word=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | see | past | page | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | is a | past | the page | one | whom nmod | tree rules | |||
| 5 | confide speech: other | might | page | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | word | page's message | nom word «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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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