Legends of the conquest of Spain, The Cave of Hercules., sentence 48
The writer of these pages will venture to add the result of his personal researches respecting the far famed cavern in question.
Who acts: writer, personal researches, Hercules · What happens: venture, add, respect, fame, result, research · To what, where: result, far famed cavern, question, personal researches
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 (writer, personal researches, Hercules), 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 | 2 writer | det |
| 2 | writer | writer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 venture | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 pages | case |
| 4 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 5 pages | det |
| 5 | pages | page | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 writer | nmod |
| 6 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 venture | aux |
| 7 | venture | venture | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 add | mark |
| 9 | add | add | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 venture | xcomp |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 result | det |
| 11 | result | result | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 add | obj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 researches | case |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 researches | nmod:poss |
| 14 | personal | personal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 researches | amod |
| 15 | researches | research | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 result | nmod |
| 16 | respecting | respect | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 15 researches | acl |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 cavern | det |
| 18 | far | far | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 cavern | amod |
| 19 | famed | fame | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 cavern | amod |
| 20 | cavern | cavern | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 respecting | obj |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 question | case |
| 22 | question | question | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 cavern | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 venture | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | venture | future | the writer of this pages | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | add speech: assert | to-infinitive | the writer of this pages not said here | the result of Hercules's personal researches | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent result=Patient | ||||
| 3 | respect | gerund | Hercules's personal researches not said here | the far famed cavern | question | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer cavern=Stimulus | |||
| 4 | fame | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 5 | result | Hercules's personal researches | nom result «phenomenon transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 6 | research | Hercules | nom research «act transitive»: poss=agent |
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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