Legends of the conquest of Spain, The Rise of Don Roderick.—his Government., sentence 38
How rare it is to learn wisdom from the misfortunes of others!
What happens: be · To what, where: misfortunes
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: 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 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 2 rare | advmod |
| 2 | rare | rare | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 learn | advcl |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 rare | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 learn | cop |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 learn | mark |
| 6 | learn | learn | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | wisdom | wisdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 learn | obj |
| 8 | from | from | ADP | _ | 10 misfortunes | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 misfortunes | det |
| 10 | misfortunes | misfortune | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 learn | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 others | case |
| 12 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 misfortunes | nmod |
| 13 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 6 learn | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | the misfortunes of others | wisdom obj; learn property | tree rules |
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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