Legends of the conquest of Spain, The Rise of Don Roderick.—his Government., sentence 30
The jealousy of Roderick for the security of his crown was soon again aroused, and his measures were prompt and severe.
Who acts: measures, jealousy · What happens: arouse, be, crown, measure · To what, where: jealousy
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 (measures, jealousy), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 jealousy | det |
| 2 | jealousy | jealousy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 aroused | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 Roderick | case |
| 4 | Roderick | Roderick | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 jealousy | nmod |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 security | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 security | det |
| 7 | security | security | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 jealousy | nmod |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 crown | case |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 crown | nmod:poss |
| 10 | crown | crown | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 security | nmod |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 aroused | aux |
| 12 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 14 aroused | advmod |
| 13 | again | again | ADV | _ | 14 aroused | advmod |
| 14 | aroused | arouse | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 prompt | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 prompt | cc |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 measures | nmod:poss |
| 18 | measures | measure | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 prompt | nsubj |
| 19 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 prompt | cop |
| 20 | prompt | prompt | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 aroused | parataxis |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 severe | cc |
| 22 | severe | severe | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 prompt | conj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 aroused | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | arouse | past · passive | the jealousy of Roderick for the security of jealousy's crown | again | soon property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer | |||
| 2 | is | past | jealousy's measures | prompt property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | be | jealousy's measures not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | crown | jealousy | nom crown «communication transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 5 | measure | jealousy | nom measure «act transitive»: poss=agent |
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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