Legends of the conquest of Spain, The Cave of Hercules., sentence 40
The judicious Don Pedro de Roxas holds the account of the buried treasure for fabulous, but the adventure of this unlucky man for very possible; being led on by avarice, or rather the hope of retrieving a desperate fortune.
Who acts: judicious Don, avarice, hope · What happens: hold, bury, lead on, retrieve, account, adventure · To what, where: account, adventure, desperate fortune, buried treasure, unlucky man
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 (judicious Don, avarice, hope), 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 | 3 Don | det |
| 2 | judicious | judicious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Don | amod |
| 3 | Don | Don | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 holds | nsubj |
| 4 | Pedro | Pedro | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Don | flat |
| 5 | de | de | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Don | flat |
| 6 | Roxas | Roxas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 holds | nsubj |
| 7 | holds | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 account | det |
| 9 | account | account | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 holds | obj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 treasure | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 treasure | det |
| 12 | buried | bury | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 treasure | amod |
| 13 | treasure | treasure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 account | nmod |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 fabulous | case |
| 15 | fabulous | fabulous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 treasure | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 adventure | punct |
| 17 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 19 adventure | cc |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 adventure | det |
| 19 | adventure | adventure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 holds | obl |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 man | case |
| 21 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 23 man | det |
| 22 | unlucky | unlucky | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 man | amod |
| 23 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 adventure | nmod |
| 24 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 26 possible | mark |
| 25 | very | very | ADV | _ | 26 possible | advmod |
| 26 | possible | possible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 man | acl |
| 27 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 29 led | punct |
| 28 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 29 led | aux:pass |
| 29 | led | lead | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 adventure | acl |
| 30 | on | on | ADP | _ | 29 led | compound:prt |
| 31 | by | by | ADP | _ | 32 avarice | case |
| 32 | avarice | avarice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 led | obl |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 hope | punct |
| 34 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 37 hope | cc |
| 35 | rather | rather | ADV | _ | 37 hope | advmod |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 hope | det |
| 37 | hope | hope | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 avarice | appos |
| 38 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 39 retrieving | mark |
| 39 | retrieving | retrieve | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 37 hope | acl |
| 40 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 42 fortune | det |
| 41 | desperate | desperate | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 42 fortune | amod |
| 42 | fortune | fortune | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 retrieving | obj |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 holds | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hold | present | the judicious Don | the account of the buried treasure for fabulous | the adventure of this unlucky man obl; Roxas nsubj | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent account=Theme | |||
| 2 | bury | participle | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | lead on | gerund · passive | avarice | the adventure of this unlucky man not said here | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition | ||||
| 4 | retrieve | gerund | the hope not said here | a desperate fortune | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fortune=Theme | ||||
| 5 | account | the buried treasure for fabulous | nom account «communication transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 6 | adventure | this unlucky man | nom adventure «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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