Legends of the conquest of Spain, The Cave of Hercules., sentence 31

The most intrepid candidate on record was a poor man who had lost his all, and had those grand incentives to desperate enterprise, a wife and a large family of children.

Who acts: intrepid candidate, poor man · What happens: be, lose, have · To what, where: poor man, all, grand incentives

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 (intrepid candidate, poor man), 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	4 candidate	det
2	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	3 intrepid	advmod
3	intrepid	intrepid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 candidate	amod
4	candidate	candidate	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 man	nsubj
5	on	on	ADP	_	6 record	case
6	record	record	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 candidate	nmod
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 man	cop
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 man	det
9	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 man	amod
10	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
11	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 lost	nsubj
12	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 lost	aux
13	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	10 man	acl:relcl
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 all	nmod:poss
15	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	13 lost	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 had	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 had	cc
18	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 man	acl:relcl
19	those	that	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	21 incentives	det
20	grand	grand	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 incentives	amod
21	incentives	incentive	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 had	obj
22	to	to	ADP	_	24 enterprise	case
23	desperate	desperate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 enterprise	amod
24	enterprise	enterprise	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 had	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 wife	punct
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 wife	det
27	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 enterprise	conj
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 family	cc
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 family	det
30	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 family	amod
31	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 wife	conj
32	of	of	ADP	_	33 children	case
33	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 family	nmod
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 man	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	past	the intrepid candidate on record	a poor man		tree rules
2	lose	past · perfect	a poor man	all		vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent all=Eventuality
3	have	past	a poor man not said here	that grand incentives	to desperate enterprise and a wife and a large family of children	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent incentive=Patient

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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🌲 Legends of the conquest of Spain, The Cave of Hercules., sentence 31

The tree

Pragmatics

Legends of the conquest of Spain, The Cave of Hercules., sentence 31