Legends of the conquest of Spain, The Cave of Hercules., sentence 32
Hearing the story of this cave, he determined to venture alone in search of the treasure.
Who acts: contest · What happens: hear, determine, venture, search · To what, where: story, search, treasure
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 (contest), 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 | Hearing | hear | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 determined | advcl |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 story | det |
| 3 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Hearing | obj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 cave | case |
| 5 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 cave | det |
| 6 | cave | cave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 story | nmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Hearing | punct |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 determined | nsubj |
| 9 | determined | determine | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 venture | mark |
| 11 | venture | venture | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 determined | xcomp |
| 12 | alone | alone | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 venture | xcomp |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 search | case |
| 14 | search | search | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 venture | obl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 treasure | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 treasure | det |
| 17 | treasure | treasure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 search | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 determined | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | gerund | contest not said here | the story of this cave | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer story=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | determine | past | contest | vn discover-84 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | venture | to-infinitive | contest not said here | search of the treasure | alone property | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | |||
| 4 | search | the treasure | nom search «act transitive»: of=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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