Legends of the conquest of Spain, The Cave of Hercules., sentence 8
There are not wanting other, and grave writers, who give them a still darker purpose.
Who acts: grave writers · What happens: be, not want, give · To what, where: other, darker purpose, writers
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 (grave writers), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 are | expl |
| 2 | are | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 wanting | advmod |
| 4 | wanting | want | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 are | advcl |
| 5 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 wanting | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 writers | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 writers | cc |
| 8 | grave | grave | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 writers | amod |
| 9 | writers | writer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 are | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 give | punct |
| 11 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 give | nsubj |
| 12 | give | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 writers | acl:relcl |
| 13 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 give | iobj |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 purpose | det |
| 15 | still | still | ADV | _ | 16 darker | advmod |
| 16 | darker | dark | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 17 purpose | amod |
| 17 | purpose | purpose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 give | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 are | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | present | there | grave writers conj | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | not want | gerund | other | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot other=Theme | |||||
| 3 | give | present | grave writers | a darker purpose | writers = writer | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient purpose=Theme |
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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