Legends of the conquest of Spain, The Cave of Hercules., sentence 25
Whether the archbishop was encouraged to pursue his research and gratify his curiosity, the history does not mention.
Who acts: archbishop, history, several · What happens: encourage, pursue, gratify, not mention, research · To what, where: archbishop, research, curiosity
This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, The Cave of Hercules.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (archbishop, history, several), 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 | Whether | whether | SCONJ | _ | 5 encouraged | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 archbishop | det |
| 3 | archbishop | archbishop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 encouraged | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 encouraged | aux:pass |
| 5 | encouraged | encourage | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 mention | advcl |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 pursue | mark |
| 7 | pursue | pursue | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 encouraged | xcomp |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 research | nmod:poss |
| 9 | research | research | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 pursue | obj |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 gratify | cc |
| 11 | gratify | gratify | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 pursue | conj |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 curiosity | nmod:poss |
| 13 | curiosity | curiosity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 gratify | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 encouraged | punct |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 history | det |
| 16 | history | history | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 mention | nsubj |
| 17 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 mention | aux |
| 18 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 19 mention | advmod |
| 19 | mention | mention | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 19 mention | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | encourage | past · passive | the archbishop | vn advise-37.9 «NP V NP how S_INF»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | pursue not said to happen | to-infinitive | the archbishop not said here | several's research | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent research=Theme | ||||
| 3 | gratify | infinitive | the archbishop not said here | several's curiosity | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus curiosity=Experiencer | ||||
| 4 | not mention speech: other | present · do-support | the history | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | research | several | nom research «act 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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