Legends of the conquest of Spain, Conduct of Abdalasis As Emir of Spain., sentence 12
Every error, while new, may easily be weeded out; but if suffered to take root, it flourishes, and bears seed, and produces fruit an hundred fold.
Who acts: error, produces fruit · What happens: weed out, suffer, take, flourish, fold · To what, where: error, root, bears seed
This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Conduct of Abdalasis As Emir of Spain.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (error, produces fruit), 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 | Every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 2 error | det |
| 2 | error | error | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 weeded | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 new | punct |
| 4 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 5 new | mark |
| 5 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 error | amod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 error | punct |
| 7 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 weeded | aux |
| 8 | easily | easily | ADV | _ | 10 weeded | advmod |
| 9 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 10 weeded | aux:pass |
| 10 | weeded | weed | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 11 | out | out | ADP | _ | 10 weeded | compound:prt |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 flourishes | punct |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 21 flourishes | cc |
| 14 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 15 suffered | mark |
| 15 | suffered | suffer | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 flourishes | advcl |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 take | mark |
| 17 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 suffered | xcomp |
| 18 | root | root | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 take | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 suffered | punct |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 flourishes | nsubj |
| 21 | flourishes | flourish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 weeded | conj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 seed | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 seed | cc |
| 24 | bears | bear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 seed | compound |
| 25 | seed | seed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 flourishes | obj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 fold | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 fold | cc |
| 28 | produces | produce | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 fruit | compound |
| 29 | fruit | fruit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 fold | nsubj |
| 30 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 32 fold | det |
| 31 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 32 fold | nummod |
| 32 | fold | fold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 weeded | obl |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 weeded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | weed out | may · passive | every error | easily property | vn pit-10.7 «NP V NP»: subject=Source | ||||
| 2 | suffer a condition, not said to happen | participle | error not said here | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | take | to-infinitive | error not said here | root | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent root=Theme | ||||
| 4 | flourish | present | error | bears seed | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | fold | produces fruit | 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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