Legends of the conquest of Spain, The Cave of Hercules., sentence 26
Alonzo Telles de Meneses, in his history of the world, records, that not long before his time a boy of Toledo, being threatened with punishment by his master, fled and took refuge in this cave.
Who acts: master, boy · What happens: threaten, flee, take · To what, where: boy, time, refuge, cave, Alonzo
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 (master, boy), 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 | Alonzo | Alonzo | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | Telles | Telles | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Alonzo | flat |
| 3 | de | de | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Alonzo | flat |
| 4 | Meneses | Meneses | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Alonzo | flat |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 history | punct |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 history | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 history | nmod:poss |
| 8 | history | history | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Alonzo | appos |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 world | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 world | det |
| 11 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 history | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 records | punct |
| 13 | records | record | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Alonzo | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 long | punct |
| 15 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 17 long | mark |
| 16 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 17 long | advmod |
| 17 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 1 Alonzo | advmod |
| 18 | before | before | ADP | _ | 20 time | case |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 time | nmod:poss |
| 20 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 long | obl |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 boy | det |
| 22 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 fled | nsubj |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 Toledo | case |
| 24 | Toledo | Toledo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 boy | nmod |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 threatened | punct |
| 26 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 27 threatened | aux:pass |
| 27 | threatened | threaten | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 boy | acl |
| 28 | with | with | ADP | _ | 29 punishment | case |
| 29 | punishment | punishment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 threatened | obl |
| 30 | by | by | ADP | _ | 32 master | case |
| 31 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 master | nmod:poss |
| 32 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 threatened | obl |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 fled | punct |
| 34 | fled | flee | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 time | acl:relcl |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 took | cc |
| 36 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 34 fled | conj |
| 37 | refuge | refuge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 took | obj |
| 38 | in | in | ADP | _ | 40 cave | case |
| 39 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 40 cave | det |
| 40 | cave | cave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 took | obl |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Alonzo | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | threaten | gerund · passive | several's master | a boy of Toledo not said here | with punishment | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||
| 2 | flee | past | a boy of Toledo | several's time not said here | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme time=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | take | past | a boy of Toledo not said here | refuge | this cave | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent refuge=Value in cave=Location |
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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