Legends of the conquest of Spain, The Rise of Don Roderick.—his Government., sentence 27
There they remained, to brood over their fallen fortunes, and to aid in working out the future woes of Spain.
Who acts: Evan · What happens: remain, brood, fall, aid, work out · To what, where: fallen fortunes, future woes
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 (Evan), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 3 remained | expl |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 remained | nsubj |
| 3 | remained | remain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 brood | punct |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 brood | mark |
| 6 | brood | brood | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 remained | ccomp |
| 7 | over | over | ADP | _ | 10 fortunes | case |
| 8 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 fortunes | nmod:poss |
| 9 | fallen | fall | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 fortunes | amod |
| 10 | fortunes | fortune | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 brood | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 aid | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 aid | cc |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 aid | mark |
| 14 | aid | aid | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 brood | conj |
| 15 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 16 working | mark |
| 16 | working | work | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 aid | advcl |
| 17 | out | out | ADP | _ | 16 working | compound:prt |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 woes | det |
| 19 | future | future | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 woes | amod |
| 20 | woes | woe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 working | obj |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 Spain | case |
| 22 | Spain | Spain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 woes | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 remained | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | remain | past | Evan | there | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | brood | to-infinitive | Evan not said here | Evan's fallen fortunes | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | fall | participle | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | aid | to-infinitive | Evan not said here | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | work out | gerund | Evan not said here | the future woes of Spain | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent woe=Topic |
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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