Legends of the conquest of Spain, Legend of Count Julian and His Family., sentence 145
The withered son of the desert took the boy by the hand, and led him up the winding staircase of a tower.
Who acts: withered son · What happens: wither, take, lead up, wind · 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 (withered son), 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 | 3 son | det |
| 2 | withered | wither | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 son | amod |
| 3 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 took | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 desert | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 desert | det |
| 6 | desert | desert | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 son | nmod |
| 7 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 boy | det |
| 9 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 took | obj |
| 10 | by | by | ADP | _ | 12 hand | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 hand | det |
| 12 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 took | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 led | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 led | cc |
| 15 | led | lead | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 took | conj |
| 16 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 led | obj |
| 17 | up | up | ADP | _ | 15 led | compound:prt |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 staircase | det |
| 19 | winding | wind | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 20 staircase | amod |
| 20 | staircase | staircase | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 led | obj |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 tower | case |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 tower | det |
| 23 | tower | tower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 staircase | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wither | participle | vn entity_specific_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 2 | take | past | the withered son of the desert | the boy | by the hand | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument boy=Destination | |||
| 3 | lead up | past | the withered son of the desert not said here | boy | the winding staircase of a tower obj | tree rules | |||
| 4 | wind | gerund | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme 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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