Legends of the conquest of Spain, Legend of Count Julian and His Family., sentence 140
The countess was dragged away by the soldiery, without regard to her struggles and her cries, and confined in a dungeon of the citadel.
Who acts: soldiery, woman · What happens: drag away, confine, struggle, cry · To what, where: countess, dungeon
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 (soldiery, woman), 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 dragged | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 dragged | aux:pass |
| 4 | dragged | drag | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | away | away | ADV | _ | 4 dragged | advmod |
| 6 | by | by | ADP | _ | 8 soldiery | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 soldiery | det |
| 8 | soldiery | soldiery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 dragged | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 regard | punct |
| 10 | without | without | ADP | _ | 11 regard | case |
| 11 | regard | regard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 dragged | obl |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 struggles | case |
| 13 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 struggles | nmod:poss |
| 14 | struggles | struggle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 regard | nmod |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 cries | cc |
| 16 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 cries | nmod:poss |
| 17 | cries | cry | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 struggles | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 confined | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 confined | cc |
| 20 | confined | confine | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 dragged | conj |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 dungeon | case |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 dungeon | det |
| 23 | dungeon | dungeon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 confined | obl |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 citadel | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 citadel | det |
| 26 | citadel | citadel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 dungeon | nmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 dragged | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | drag away | past · passive | the soldiery | the countess | without regard to woman's struggles and woman's cries; away property | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme | |||
| 2 | confine | participle | the soldiery not said here | a dungeon of the citadel | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in dungeon=Destination | ||||
| 3 | struggle | woman | nom struggle «act intransitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 4 | cry | woman | nom cry «communication intransitive»: 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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