Legends of the conquest of Spain, Chapter XII., sentence 41
We shall follow his steps, and avail ourselves of his information, laboriously collected from various sources; and, truly, the story of each of the actors in this great historical drama bears with it its striking moral, and is full of admonition and instruction.
Who acts: We, striking moral, story · What happens: follow, avail, collect, strike, be, step · To what, where: steps, ourselves, information, various sources
This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Chapter XII.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (We, striking moral, story), 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 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 follow | nsubj |
| 2 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 follow | aux |
| 3 | follow | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 steps | nmod:poss |
| 5 | steps | step | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 follow | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 avail | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 avail | cc |
| 8 | avail | avail | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 follow | conj |
| 9 | ourselves | ourselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 8 avail | obj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 information | case |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 information | nmod:poss |
| 12 | information | information | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 avail | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 collected | punct |
| 14 | laboriously | laboriously | ADV | _ | 15 collected | advmod |
| 15 | collected | collect | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 information | acl |
| 16 | from | from | ADP | _ | 18 sources | case |
| 17 | various | various | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 sources | amod |
| 18 | sources | source | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 collected | obl |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 25 story | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 story | cc |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 and | punct |
| 22 | truly | truly | ADV | _ | 25 story | advmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 truly | punct |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 story | det |
| 25 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 follow | parataxis |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 each | case |
| 27 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 25 story | nmod |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 actors | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 actors | det |
| 30 | actors | actor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 each | nmod |
| 31 | in | in | ADP | _ | 36 bears | case |
| 32 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 36 bears | nsubj |
| 33 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 bears | amod |
| 34 | historical | historical | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 bears | amod |
| 35 | drama | drama | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 bears | compound |
| 36 | bears | bear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 actors | nmod |
| 37 | with | with | ADP | _ | 38 it | case |
| 38 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 bears | nmod |
| 39 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 41 moral | nmod:poss |
| 40 | striking | strike | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 41 moral | amod |
| 41 | moral | moral | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 bears | nmod |
| 42 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 45 full | punct |
| 43 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 45 full | cc |
| 44 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 45 full | cop |
| 45 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 41 moral | acl:relcl |
| 46 | of | of | ADP | _ | 47 admonition | case |
| 47 | admonition | admonition | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 full | obl |
| 48 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 49 instruction | cc |
| 49 | instruction | instruction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 47 admonition | conj |
| 50 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 follow | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | follow | shall | We | story's steps | the story of each of the actors in great historical drama bears this with source source's striking moral parataxis | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent step=Theme | |||
| 2 | avail | infinitive | We not said here | ourselves | of story's information | tree rules | |||
| 3 | collect | participle | story's information not said here | various sources | laboriously property | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent from source=Source | |||
| 4 | strike | gerund | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 5 | is | present | source's striking moral not said here | of admonition and instruction; full property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | step | story | nom step «act transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 7 | inform | story | nom information «communication intransitive»: 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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