Legends of the conquest of Spain, Expedition of Abdalasis Against Seville and the “land of Tadmir.”, sentence 4
At length, when there was a pause, he turned to his father, and addressed him with modest earnestness.
Who acts: pause · What happens: be, turn, address · To what, where: length, pause
This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Expedition of Abdalasis Against Seville and the “land of Tadmir.”. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (pause), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 length | case |
| 2 | length | length | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 turned | obl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 length | punct |
| 4 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 6 was | advmod |
| 5 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 6 was | expl |
| 6 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 turned | advcl |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 pause | det |
| 8 | pause | pause | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 was | nsubj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 was | punct |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 turned | nsubj |
| 11 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 father | case |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 father | nmod:poss |
| 14 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 turned | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 addressed | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 addressed | cc |
| 17 | addressed | address | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 turned | conj |
| 18 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 addressed | obj |
| 19 | with | with | ADP | _ | 21 earnestness | case |
| 20 | modest | modest | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 earnestness | amod |
| 21 | earnestness | earnestness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 addressed | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 turned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | a pause | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | turn | past | pause | length | to pause's father | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme at length=Trajectory | |||
| 3 | address | past | pause not said here | pause | with modest earnestness | vn illustrate-25.3 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent he=Destination with earnestness=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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