Legends of the conquest of Spain, Traitorous Message of Count Julian., sentence 3
When the herald had retired, he turned an eye of suspicion on Count Julian.
Who acts: defiance · What happens: retire, turn · To what, where: herald, eye
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 (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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 retired | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 herald | det |
| 3 | herald | herald | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 retired | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 retired | aux |
| 5 | retired | retire | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 turned | advcl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 retired | punct |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 turned | nsubj |
| 8 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 eye | det |
| 10 | eye | eye | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 turned | obj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 suspicion | case |
| 12 | suspicion | suspicion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 eye | nmod |
| 13 | on | on | ADP | _ | 15 Julian | case |
| 14 | Count | Count | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 Julian | compound |
| 15 | Julian | Julian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 suspicion | nmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 turned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | retire | past · perfect · passive | the herald | vn resign-10.11-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Attribute | |||||
| 2 | turn | past | defiance | a eye of suspicion on Count Julian | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent eye=Theme |
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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