Legends of the conquest of Spain, The Rise of Don Roderick.—his Government., sentence 18
No sooner did Roderick find himself in possession of the crown, than the love of power, and the jealousy of rule, were awakened in his breast.
Who acts: Roderick, love · What happens: find, awaken, possess, love · To what, where: Roderick, possession, jealousy, breast, crown, power
This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, The Rise of Don Roderick.—his Government.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Roderick, love), 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 | No | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 2 sooner | det |
| 2 | sooner | soon | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 5 find | advmod |
| 3 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 find | aux |
| 4 | Roderick | Roderick | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 find | nsubj |
| 5 | find | find | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 5 find | obj |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 possession | case |
| 8 | possession | possession | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 find | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 crown | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 crown | det |
| 11 | crown | crown | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 possession | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 love | punct |
| 13 | than | than | ADP | _ | 15 love | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 love | det |
| 15 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 find | vocative |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 power | case |
| 17 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 love | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 awakened | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 awakened | cc |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 jealousy | det |
| 21 | jealousy | jealousy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 awakened | nsubj:pass |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 rule | case |
| 23 | rule | rule | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 jealousy | nmod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 jealousy | punct |
| 25 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 awakened | aux:pass |
| 26 | awakened | awaken | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 love | acl |
| 27 | in | in | ADP | _ | 29 breast | case |
| 28 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 breast | nmod:poss |
| 29 | breast | breast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 awakened | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 find | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | past · do-support | Roderick | Roderick | possession of the crown | the love of power vocative; soon property | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Topic | ||
| 2 | awaken | past · passive | the love of power not said here | the jealousy of rule | Roderick's breast | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme | |||
| 3 | possess | the crown | nom possession «act transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 4 | love | power | nom love «feeling 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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