Legends of the conquest of Spain, The Cave of Hercules., sentence 34
Often would he have returned, but the thoughts of his wife and children urged him on.
Who acts: contest, thoughts · What happens: return, urge on, think · To what, where: contest, wife
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, thoughts), 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 | Often | often | ADV | _ | 5 returned | advmod |
| 2 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 returned | aux |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 returned | nsubj |
| 4 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 returned | aux |
| 5 | returned | return | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 urged | punct |
| 7 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 urged | cc |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 thoughts | det |
| 9 | thoughts | thought | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 urged | nsubj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 wife | case |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 wife | nmod:poss |
| 12 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 thoughts | nmod |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 children | cc |
| 14 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 wife | conj |
| 15 | urged | urge | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 returned | conj |
| 16 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 urged | iobj |
| 17 | on | on | ADP | _ | 15 urged | compound:prt |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 returned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | return | would · perfect | contest | often property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | urge on | past | the thoughts of contest's wife and children | contest | vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | think | contest's wife and children | nom thought «cognition 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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