Legends of the conquest of Spain, Of the Ancient Inhabitants of Spain.—of the Misrule of Witiza the Wicked., sentence 27
The violence of Witiza reached him even in his retirement.
Who acts: violence, beginning · What happens: reach, retire · To what, where: beginning, retirement
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 (violence, beginning), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 violence | det |
| 2 | violence | violence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 reached | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 Witiza | case |
| 4 | Witiza | Witiza | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 violence | nmod |
| 5 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 reached | obj |
| 7 | even | even | ADV | _ | 10 retirement | advmod |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 retirement | case |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 retirement | nmod:poss |
| 10 | retirement | retirement | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 reached | obl |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 reached | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reach | past | the violence of Witiza | beginning | beginning's retirement | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent he=Theme | |||
| 2 | retire | beginning | nom retirement «state intransitive»: 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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