Legends of the conquest of Spain, Of the Ancient Inhabitants of Spain.—of the Misrule of Witiza the Wicked., sentence 39
He was a priest after his own heart, and seconded him in all his profligate abuses.
Who acts: Witiza · What happens: be, second, abuse · To what, where: priest, Witiza, profligate
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 (Witiza), 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 | 4 priest | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 priest | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 priest | det |
| 4 | priest | priest | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | after | after | ADP | _ | 8 heart | case |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 heart | nmod:poss |
| 7 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 heart | amod |
| 8 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 priest | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 seconded | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 seconded | cc |
| 11 | seconded | second | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 priest | parataxis |
| 12 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 seconded | obj |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 profligate | case |
| 14 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 16 profligate | det:predet |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 profligate | nmod:poss |
| 16 | profligate | profligate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 abuses | obl |
| 17 | abuses | abuse | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 seconded | conj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 priest | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | Witiza | a priest | after Witiza's own heart | tree rules | |||
| 2 | second | past | Witiza | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | abuse | present | Witiza's profligate | vn judgment-33.1 «NP V NP»: agent=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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