Legends of the conquest of Spain, Traitorous Message of Count Julian., sentence 29
The king has confided to myself, aided by the princes Evan and Siseburto, the command of a wing of the army.
Who acts: king · What happens: confide, aid, command · To what, where: myself, wing · 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 (king), 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 | 2 king | det |
| 2 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 confided | nsubj |
| 3 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 confided | aux |
| 4 | confided | confide | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 myself | case |
| 6 | myself | myself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 4 confided | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 aided | punct |
| 8 | aided | aid | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 confided | conj |
| 9 | by | by | ADP | _ | 11 princes | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 princes | det |
| 11 | princes | prince | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 aided | obl |
| 12 | Evan | Evan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 princes | appos |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 Siseburto | cc |
| 14 | Siseburto | Siseburto | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Evan | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 command | punct |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 command | det |
| 17 | command | command | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 Evan | appos |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 wing | case |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 wing | det |
| 20 | wing | wing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 command | nmod |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 army | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 army | det |
| 23 | army | army | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 wing | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 confided | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | confide speech: other | present · perfect | the king | myself | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to myself=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | aid | participle | the king not said here | by the princes | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | command | a wing of the army | nom command «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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