Legends of the conquest of Spain, Traitorous Message of Count Julian., sentence 7
Don Julian retired to his tent in great trouble of mind, and fear came upon him that the Bishop Oppas might play him false; for it is the lot of traitors ever to distrust each other.
Who acts: Don, fear, Bishop Oppas, Oppas · What happens: retire, come, play, be, distrust, trouble · To what, where: great trouble, Don, each, mind
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 (Don, fear, Bishop Oppas, Oppas), 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 | Don | Don | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 retired | nsubj |
| 2 | Julian | Julian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Don | flat |
| 3 | retired | retire | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 tent | case |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 tent | nmod:poss |
| 6 | tent | tent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 retired | obl |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 trouble | case |
| 8 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 trouble | amod |
| 9 | trouble | trouble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 retired | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 mind | case |
| 11 | mind | mind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 trouble | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 came | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 came | cc |
| 14 | fear | fear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 came | nsubj |
| 15 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 retired | conj |
| 16 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 17 him | case |
| 17 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 came | obl |
| 18 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 23 play | mark |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 Oppas | det |
| 20 | Bishop | Bishop | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 Oppas | compound |
| 21 | Oppas | Oppas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 play | nsubj |
| 22 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 play | aux |
| 23 | play | play | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 came | advcl |
| 24 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 play | obj |
| 25 | false | false | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 play | xcomp |
| 26 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 31 lot | punct |
| 27 | for | for | ADP | _ | 31 lot | case |
| 28 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 lot | nsubj |
| 29 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 31 lot | cop |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 lot | det |
| 31 | lot | lot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 retired | obl |
| 32 | of | of | ADP | _ | 33 traitors | case |
| 33 | traitors | traitor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 lot | nmod |
| 34 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 36 distrust | advmod |
| 35 | to | to | PART | _ | 36 distrust | mark |
| 36 | distrust | distrust | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 retired | advcl |
| 37 | each | each | DET | ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp | 36 distrust | obj |
| 38 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 each | fixed |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 retired | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | retire | past | Don | great trouble of mind | to Don's tent | vn resign-10.11-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | come | past | fear | upon Don | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon he=Location | ||||
| 3 | play | might | the Bishop Oppas | Don | false property | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | |||
| 4 | is | present | Oppas | for the lot; of traitors | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | distrust | to-infinitive | Don not said here | each | ever | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer each=Stimulus | |||
| 6 | trouble | mind | nom trouble «cognition 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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