Legends of the conquest of Spain, Muza Ben Nozier.—his Entrance Into Spain, and Capture of Carmona., sentence 32
These pretended merchants were Count Julian and a number of his partisans.
Who acts: pretended merchants · What happens: pretend, count · To what, where: Julian
This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Muza Ben Nozier.—his Entrance Into Spain, and Capture of Carmona.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (pretended merchants), 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 | These | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 3 merchants | det |
| 2 | pretended | pretend | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 merchants | amod |
| 3 | merchants | merchant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 Count | nsubj |
| 4 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 Count | aux |
| 5 | Count | count | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | Julian | Julian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Count | obj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 number | cc |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 number | det |
| 9 | number | number | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 Julian | conj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 partisans | case |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 partisans | nmod:poss |
| 12 | partisans | partisan | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 number | nmod |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 Count | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pretend | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | count | past | this pretended merchants | Julian and a number of Julian's partisans | vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent julian=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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