Legends of the conquest of Spain, The Rise of Don Roderick.—his Government., sentence 8
Witiza saw too late the evil he had brought upon himself.
Who acts: Witiza · What happens: see, bring · To what, where: evil
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 (Witiza), 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 | Witiza | Witiza | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 saw | nsubj |
| 2 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | too | too | ADV | _ | 4 late | advmod |
| 4 | late | late | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 saw | xcomp |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 evil | det |
| 6 | evil | evil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 saw | obj |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 brought | nsubj |
| 8 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 brought | aux |
| 9 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 6 evil | acl:relcl |
| 10 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 11 himself | case |
| 11 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 9 brought | obl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | Witiza | the evil | late property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer evil=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | bring | past · perfect | Witiza | the evil not said here | upon arm | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent evil=Theme |
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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