Legends of the conquest of Spain, Of the Ancient Inhabitants of Spain.—of the Misrule of Witiza the Wicked., sentence 15
But though the crown was elective in principle, it gradually became hereditary from usage, and the power of the sovereign grew to be almost absolute.
Who acts: crown, power · What happens: be, become, grow · To what, where: principle
This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Of the Ancient Inhabitants of Spain.—of the Misrule of Witiza the Wicked.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (crown, power), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 became | cc |
| 2 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 6 elective | mark |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 crown | det |
| 4 | crown | crown | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 elective | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 elective | cop |
| 6 | elective | elective | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 became | advcl |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 principle | case |
| 8 | principle | principle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 elective | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 elective | punct |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 became | nsubj |
| 11 | gradually | gradually | ADV | _ | 12 became | advmod |
| 12 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | hereditary | hereditary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 became | xcomp |
| 14 | from | from | ADP | _ | 15 usage | case |
| 15 | usage | usage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 hereditary | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 grew | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 grew | cc |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 power | det |
| 19 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 grew | nsubj |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 sovereign | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 sovereign | det |
| 22 | sovereign | sovereign | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 power | nmod |
| 23 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 became | conj |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 27 absolute | mark |
| 25 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 27 absolute | cop |
| 26 | almost | almost | ADV | _ | 27 absolute | advmod |
| 27 | absolute | absolute | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 grew | advcl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 became | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the crown | principle | elective property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | become | past | crown | gradually, hereditary property | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 3 | grow | past | the power of the sovereign | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | is | to-infinitive | the power of the sovereign not said here | absolute, almost property | tree rules |
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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