Legends of the conquest of Spain, The Rise of Don Roderick.—his Government., sentence 24
Roderick now cast an uneasy and suspicious eye upon Evan and Siseburto, the two sons of Witiza.
Who acts: Roderick · What happens: cast · To what, where: uneasy eye
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 | 3 cast | nsubj |
| 2 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 cast | advmod |
| 3 | cast | cast | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 eye | det |
| 5 | uneasy | uneasy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 eye | amod |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 suspicious | cc |
| 7 | suspicious | suspicious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 uneasy | conj |
| 8 | eye | eye | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 cast | obj |
| 9 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 10 Evan | case |
| 10 | Evan | Evan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 cast | obl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 Siseburto | cc |
| 12 | Siseburto | Siseburto | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Evan | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 sons | punct |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 sons | det |
| 15 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 16 sons | nummod |
| 16 | sons | son | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 Evan | appos |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 Witiza | case |
| 18 | Witiza | Witiza | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 sons | nmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 cast | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cast | past | Roderick | a uneasy eye | now | upon Evan and Siseburto | vn throw-17.1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent eye=Theme upon evan=Destination |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg77685/3/24/