Legends of the conquest of Spain, Legend of Count Julian and His Family., sentence 118
The countess was taken prisoner and brought before the emir.
What happens: take, bring · To what, where: countess, emir
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: 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 countess | det |
| 2 | countess | countess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 taken | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 taken | aux:pass |
| 4 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | prisoner | prisoner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 taken | xcomp |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 brought | cc |
| 7 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 taken | conj |
| 8 | before | before | ADP | _ | 10 emir | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 emir | det |
| 10 | emir | emir | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 brought | obl |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 taken | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past · passive | the countess | prisoner xcomp | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | bring | participle | the emir | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent before emir=Destination |
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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