Legends of the conquest of Spain, Traitorous Message of Count Julian., sentence 8
He called to him the same page who had brought him the letter from Florinda, revealing the story of her dishonour.
Who acts: fear, Florinda · What happens: call, bring, reveal, dishonour · To what, where: same page, Don, story · 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 (fear, Florinda), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 called | nsubj |
| 2 | called | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 4 him | case |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 called | obl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 page | det |
| 6 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 page | amod |
| 7 | page | page | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 called | xcomp |
| 8 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 brought | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 brought | aux |
| 10 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 page | acl:relcl |
| 11 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 brought | obj |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 letter | det |
| 13 | letter | letter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 brought | obj |
| 14 | from | from | ADP | _ | 15 Florinda | case |
| 15 | Florinda | Florinda | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 letter | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 revealing | punct |
| 17 | revealing | reveal | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 called | advcl |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 story | det |
| 19 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 revealing | obj |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 dishonour | case |
| 21 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 dishonour | nmod:poss |
| 22 | dishonour | dishonour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 story | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 called | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call | past | fear | the same page | Don | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient | |||
| 2 | bring | past · perfect · passive | the same page | fear obj; the letter obj | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | reveal | gerund | fear not said here | the story of Florinda's dishonour | vn confess-37.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent story=Topic | ||||
| 4 | dishonour | Florinda | nom dishonour «state 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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