Legends of the conquest of Spain, Meeting Between the Patriot Pelistes and the Traitor Julian., sentence 13
He was the loved companion of my youth, and the steadfast associate of my graver years.
Who acts: man · What happens: love, be · To what, where: loved companion
This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Meeting Between the Patriot Pelistes and the Traitor Julian.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 companion | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 companion | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 companion | det |
| 4 | loved | love | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 companion | amod |
| 5 | companion | companion | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 youth | case |
| 7 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 youth | nmod:poss |
| 8 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 companion | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 associate | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 associate | cc |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 associate | det |
| 12 | steadfast | steadfast | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 associate | amod |
| 13 | associate | associate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 companion | conj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 years | case |
| 15 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 years | nmod:poss |
| 16 | graver | graver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 years | compound |
| 17 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 associate | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 companion | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | love | participle | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 2 | is a | past | man | the loved companion and the steadfast associate of my graver years | of my youth; the steadfast associate of my graver years conj | tree rules |
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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