Legends of the conquest of Spain, Fate of Abdalasis and Exilona.—death of Muza., sentence 31
It was necessary to proceed with caution.
What happens: be, proceed
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: 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 necessary | expl |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 necessary | cop |
| 3 | necessary | necessary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 proceed | mark |
| 5 | proceed | proceed | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 necessary | xcomp |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 caution | case |
| 7 | caution | caution | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 proceed | obl |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 necessary | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | necessary property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | proceed | to-infinitive | with caution | vn begin-55.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=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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