Legends of the conquest of Spain, Legend of Count Julian and His Family., sentence 162
She knew of the death of her child, and that her own death was at hand; but she neither wept nor supplicated.
Who acts: sea, own death, child · What happens: know, be, weep, supplicate, die · To what, where: hand
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 (sea, own death, child), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 knew | nsubj |
| 2 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 death | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 death | det |
| 5 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 knew | obl |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 child | case |
| 7 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 child | nmod:poss |
| 8 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 death | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 hand | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 hand | cc |
| 11 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 17 hand | mark |
| 12 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 death | nmod:poss |
| 13 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 death | amod |
| 14 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 hand | nsubj |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 hand | cop |
| 16 | at | at | ADP | _ | 17 hand | case |
| 17 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 knew | obl |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 wept | punct |
| 19 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 22 wept | cc |
| 20 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 wept | nsubj |
| 21 | neither | neither | ADV | _ | 22 wept | advmod |
| 22 | wept | weep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 knew | conj |
| 23 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 24 supplicated | cc |
| 24 | supplicated | supplicate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 wept | conj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 knew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | past | sea | of the death of sea's child | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer of death=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | is | past | sea's own death | hand | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | weep | past | sea | neither property | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | supplicate | participle | sea not said here | vn beg-58.2-1 «NP V PP.Topic»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | die | sea's child | nom death «event intransitive»: of=agent | ||||||
| 6 | die | sea | nom death «event 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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