Legends of the conquest of Spain, The Field of Battle After the Defeat.—the Fate of Roderick., sentence 30
This tradition was fondly cherished by many, who clung to the belief in the existence of their monarch as their main hope for the redemption of Spain.
Who acts: monarch, mountains · What happens: cherish, cling, exist, hope, redeem · To what, where: tradition, existence, Spain
This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, The Field of Battle After the Defeat.—the Fate of Roderick.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (monarch, mountains), 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 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 tradition | det |
| 2 | tradition | tradition | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 cherished | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 cherished | aux:pass |
| 4 | fondly | fondly | ADV | _ | 5 cherished | advmod |
| 5 | cherished | cherish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | by | by | ADP | _ | 7 many | case |
| 7 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 cherished | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 clung | punct |
| 9 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 clung | nsubj |
| 10 | clung | cling | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 cherished | conj |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 belief | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 belief | det |
| 13 | belief | belief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 clung | obl |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 existence | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 existence | det |
| 16 | existence | existence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 clung | obl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 monarch | case |
| 18 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 monarch | nmod:poss |
| 19 | monarch | monarch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 existence | nmod |
| 20 | as | as | ADP | _ | 23 hope | case |
| 21 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 hope | nmod:poss |
| 22 | main | main | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 hope | amod |
| 23 | hope | hope | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 clung | obl |
| 24 | for | for | ADP | _ | 26 redemption | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 redemption | det |
| 26 | redemption | redemption | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 hope | nmod |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 Spain | case |
| 28 | Spain | Spain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 redemption | nmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 cherished | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cherish | past · passive | this tradition | by many; fondly property | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | cling | past | the existence of mountains's monarch | to the belief; as mountains's main hope for the redemption of Spain; who nsubj | vn cling-22.5 «NP V PP.co-theme»: agent=Theme to belief=Co-Theme | ||||
| 3 | exist | mountains's monarch | nom existence «state intransitive»: of=agent | ||||||
| 4 | hope | mountains = mountain | for the redemption of Spain | nom hope «feeling intransitive»: poss=agent for=obl | |||||
| 5 | redeem | Spain | nom redemption «act 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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