Legends of the conquest of Spain, Legend of Count Julian and His Family., sentence 15
Men whispered together as he approached, and then turned away in scorn; and mothers snatched away their children with horror if he offered to caress them.
Who acts: Men, tree, mothers · What happens: whisper, approach, turn away, snatch away, offer, caress · To what, where: scorn, children
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 (Men, tree, mothers), 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 | Men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 whispered | nsubj |
| 2 | whispered | whisper | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | together | together | ADV | _ | 2 whispered | advmod |
| 4 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 6 approached | mark |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 approached | nsubj |
| 6 | approached | approach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 whispered | advcl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 turned | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 turned | cc |
| 9 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 10 turned | advmod |
| 10 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 whispered | parataxis |
| 11 | away | away | ADP | _ | 10 turned | compound:prt |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 scorn | case |
| 13 | scorn | scorn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 turned | obl |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 snatched | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 snatched | cc |
| 16 | mothers | mother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 snatched | nsubj |
| 17 | snatched | snatch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 whispered | conj |
| 18 | away | away | ADV | _ | 17 snatched | advmod |
| 19 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 children | nmod:poss |
| 20 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 snatched | obj |
| 21 | with | with | ADP | _ | 22 horror | case |
| 22 | horror | horror | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 snatched | obl |
| 23 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 25 offered | mark |
| 24 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 offered | nsubj |
| 25 | offered | offer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 snatched | advcl |
| 26 | to | to | PART | _ | 27 caress | mark |
| 27 | caress | caress | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 offered | xcomp |
| 28 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 caress | obj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 whispered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | whisper speech: assert | past | Men | together property | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | approach | past | tree | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | turn away | past | scorn | then | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | snatch away | past | mothers | mothers's children | with horror; away property | vn steal-10.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Theme | |||
| 5 | offer a condition, not said to happen | past | tree | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | caress not said to happen | to-infinitive | tree not said here | children = child | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Experiencer |
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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