Legends of the conquest of Spain, Legend of Count Julian and His Family., sentence 116
The boy, who was of a courageous nature, did as he was bidden, and remained there all that day, and all the night, and the next day until the third hour.
Who acts: boy · What happens: be, do, bid, remain · To what, where: boy
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 (boy), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 boy | det |
| 2 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 did | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 nature | punct |
| 4 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 nature | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 nature | cop |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 nature | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 nature | det |
| 8 | courageous | courageous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 nature | amod |
| 9 | nature | nature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 boy | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 boy | punct |
| 11 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 15 bidden | mark |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 bidden | nsubj |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 bidden | aux:pass |
| 15 | bidden | bid | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 did | advcl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 remained | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 remained | cc |
| 18 | remained | remain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 did | conj |
| 19 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 18 remained | advmod |
| 20 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 22 day | det:predet |
| 21 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 22 day | det |
| 22 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 remained | obl:unmarked |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 night | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 night | cc |
| 25 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 27 night | det:predet |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 night | det |
| 27 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 did | obl:unmarked |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 day | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 day | cc |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 day | det |
| 31 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 day | amod |
| 32 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 did | obl:unmarked |
| 33 | until | until | ADP | _ | 36 hour | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 hour | det |
| 35 | third | third | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 36 hour | amod |
| 36 | hour | hour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 day | nmod |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 did | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the boy | of a courageous nature | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | do | past | the boy | day; night | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | bid | past · passive | boy | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | remain | past | the boy not said here | there | day | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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