Legends of the conquest of Spain, Legend of Count Julian and His Family., sentence 10
He had gratified his vengeance; he had been successful in his treason, and had acquired countless riches from the ruin of his country.
Who acts: thing · What happens: gratify, be, acquire, ruin · To what, where: vengeance, treason, countless riches, ruin, country
This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Legend of Count Julian and His Family.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (thing), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 gratified | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 gratified | aux |
| 3 | gratified | gratify | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 vengeance | nmod:poss |
| 5 | vengeance | vengeance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 gratified | obj |
| 6 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 10 successful | punct |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 successful | nsubj |
| 8 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 successful | aux |
| 9 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 10 successful | cop |
| 10 | successful | successful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 gratified | conj |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 treason | case |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 treason | nmod:poss |
| 13 | treason | treason | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 successful | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 acquired | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 acquired | cc |
| 16 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 acquired | aux |
| 17 | acquired | acquire | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 gratified | parataxis |
| 18 | countless | countless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 riches | amod |
| 19 | riches | rich | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 acquired | obj |
| 20 | from | from | ADP | _ | 22 ruin | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 ruin | det |
| 22 | ruin | ruin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 acquired | obl |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 country | case |
| 24 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 country | nmod:poss |
| 25 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 ruin | nmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 gratified | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | gratify | past · perfect | thing | thing's vengeance | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus vengeance=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | is | past · perfect | thing | thing's treason | successful property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | acquire | past · perfect | countless riches | the ruin of thing's country | vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent rich=Theme from ruin=Source | ||||
| 4 | ruin | thing's country | nom ruin «state transitive»: of=patient |
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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