Legends of the conquest of Spain, Fate of Abdalasis and Exilona.—death of Muza., sentence 2
Exilona, unfortunately, had once been a queen, and she could not remember her regal glories without regret.
Who acts: Exilona · What happens: have, be, not remember, glory · To what, where: queen, regal glories
This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Fate of Abdalasis and Exilona.—death of Muza.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Exilona), 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 | Exilona | Exilona | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 had | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Exilona | punct |
| 3 | unfortunately | unfortunately | ADV | _ | 5 had | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 unfortunately | punct |
| 5 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 9 queen | advmod |
| 7 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 9 queen | cop |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 queen | det |
| 9 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 had | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 remember | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 remember | cc |
| 12 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 remember | nsubj |
| 13 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 remember | aux |
| 14 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 remember | advmod |
| 15 | remember | remember | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 had | conj |
| 16 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 glories | nmod:poss |
| 17 | regal | regal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 glories | amod |
| 18 | glories | glory | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 remember | obj |
| 19 | without | without | ADP | _ | 20 regret | case |
| 20 | regret | regret | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 remember | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | Exilona | unfortunately property | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | is a | participle | a queen | once property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | not remember | could | Exilona | Exilona's regal glories | without regret | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent glory=Theme | |||
| 4 | glory | Exilona | nom glory «state 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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