Legends of the conquest of Spain, The Rise of Don Roderick.—his Government., sentence 20
Roderick beheld the captive monarch with an unpitying eye, remembering only his wrongs and cruelties to his father.
Who acts: Roderick · What happens: behold, remember · To what, where: captive monarch, wrongs
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), 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 | Roderick | Roderick | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 beheld | nsubj |
| 2 | beheld | behold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 monarch | det |
| 4 | captive | captive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 monarch | amod |
| 5 | monarch | monarch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 beheld | obj |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 eye | case |
| 7 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 eye | det |
| 8 | unpitying | unpitying | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 eye | amod |
| 9 | eye | eye | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 beheld | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 remembering | punct |
| 11 | remembering | remember | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 beheld | advcl |
| 12 | only | only | ADV | _ | 14 wrongs | advmod |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 wrongs | nmod:poss |
| 14 | wrongs | wrong | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 remembering | obj |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 cruelties | cc |
| 16 | cruelties | cruelty | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 wrongs | conj |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 father | case |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 father | nmod:poss |
| 19 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 remembering | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 beheld | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | behold | past | Roderick | the captive monarch | with a unpitying eye | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer monarch=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | remember | gerund | Roderick not said here | Roderick's wrongs and cruelties | to Roderick's father | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: agent=Agent wrong=Theme to father=be' |
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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