Legends of the conquest of Spain, Legend of Count Julian and His Family., sentence 134

Within lay the boy in the sound sleep of childhood, and one of the soldiers took him gently in his arms to bear him to the emir.

Who acts: one, childhood · What happens: lie, take, bear, sleep · To what, where: boy, sound sleep, arms

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 (one, childhood), 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	Within	within	ADP	_	2 lay	mark
2	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 boy	det
4	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 lay	obj
5	in	in	ADP	_	8 sleep	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 sleep	det
7	sound	sound	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 sleep	compound
8	sleep	sleep	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 lay	obl
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 childhood	case
10	childhood	childhood	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 sleep	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 took	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 took	cc
13	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	17 took	nsubj
14	of	of	ADP	_	16 soldiers	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 soldiers	det
16	soldiers	soldier	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 one	nmod
17	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 lay	conj
18	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 took	obj
19	gently	gently	ADV	_	17 took	advmod
20	in	in	ADP	_	22 arms	case
21	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 arms	nmod:poss
22	arms	arm	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 took	obl
23	to	to	PART	_	24 bear	mark
24	bear	bear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 took	advcl
25	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 bear	obj
26	to	to	ADP	_	28 emir	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 emir	det
28	emir	emir	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 bear	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 lay	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	lie	past		the boy	the sound sleep of childhood		tree rules
2	take	past	one of the soldiers	boy	boy's arms	gently property	vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent he=Value in arm=Location
3	bear	to-infinitive	one of the soldiers not said here	boy		to the emir	vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient
4	sleep		childhood				nom sleep «state intransitive»: of=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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🌲 Legends of the conquest of Spain, Legend of Count Julian and His Family., sentence 134

The tree

Pragmatics

Legends of the conquest of Spain, Legend of Count Julian and His Family., sentence 134