Legends of the conquest of Spain, Legend of Count Julian and His Family., sentence 135
When the countess beheld that her child was discovered, she rushed into the presence of Alahor, and, forgetting all her pride, threw herself upon her knees before him.
Who acts: countess, Cava · What happens: behold, discover, rush, forget, throw, pride · To what, where: child, presence, pride, Cava, knees
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 (countess, Cava), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 beheld | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 countess | det |
| 3 | countess | countess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 beheld | nsubj |
| 4 | beheld | behold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 rushed | advcl |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 9 discovered | mark |
| 6 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 child | nmod:poss |
| 7 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 discovered | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 discovered | aux:pass |
| 9 | discovered | discover | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 beheld | advcl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 beheld | punct |
| 11 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 rushed | nsubj |
| 12 | rushed | rush | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | into | into | ADP | _ | 15 presence | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 presence | det |
| 15 | presence | presence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 rushed | obl |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 Alahor | case |
| 17 | Alahor | Alahor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 presence | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 forgetting | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 forgetting | cc |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 forgetting | punct |
| 21 | forgetting | forget | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 rushed | advcl |
| 22 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 24 pride | det:predet |
| 23 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 pride | nmod:poss |
| 24 | pride | pride | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 forgetting | obj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 threw | punct |
| 26 | threw | throw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 rushed | conj |
| 27 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 26 threw | obj |
| 28 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 30 knees | case |
| 29 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 knees | nmod:poss |
| 30 | knees | knee | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 threw | obl |
| 31 | before | before | ADP | _ | 32 him | case |
| 32 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 threw | obl |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 rushed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | behold | past | the countess | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | discover | past · passive | Cava's child | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic | |||||
| 3 | rush | past | Cava | into the presence of Alahor result | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into presence=Result | ||||
| 4 | forget | gerund | Cava not said here | Cava's pride | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | throw | past | Cava not said here | Cava | Cava's knees | before boy | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent herself=Theme upon knee=Destination | ||
| 6 | pride | Cava | nom pride «feeling transitive»: poss=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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