Legends of the conquest of Spain, Legend of Count Julian and His Family., sentence 164
A multitude of Christian prisoners were then brought forth; and Alahor cried out—“Behold the wife of Count Julian; behold one of that traitorous family which has brought ruin upon yourselves and upon your country.”
Who acts: Alahor · What happens: bring, cry out · To what, where: multitude, wife, traitorous family · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Alahor), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 multitude | det |
| 2 | multitude | multitude | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 brought | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 prisoners | case |
| 4 | Christian | Christian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 prisoners | amod |
| 5 | prisoners | prisoner | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 multitude | nmod |
| 6 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 brought | aux:pass |
| 7 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 8 brought | advmod |
| 8 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 8 brought | advmod |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 cried | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 cried | cc |
| 12 | Alahor | Alahor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 cried | nsubj |
| 13 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 brought | conj |
| 14 | out | out | ADP | _ | 13 cried | compound:prt |
| 15 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 19 wife | punct |
| 16 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 wife | punct |
| 17 | Behold | behold | INTJ | _ | 19 wife | discourse |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 wife | det |
| 19 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 cried | obl |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 Julian | case |
| 21 | Count | Count | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 Julian | compound |
| 22 | Julian | Julian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 wife | nmod |
| 23 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 25 one | punct |
| 24 | behold | behold | INTJ | _ | 25 one | discourse |
| 25 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 brought | parataxis |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 family | case |
| 27 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 29 family | det |
| 28 | traitorous | traitorous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 family | amod |
| 29 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 one | nmod |
| 30 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 32 brought | nsubj:pass |
| 31 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 32 brought | aux |
| 32 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 29 family | acl:relcl |
| 33 | ruin | ruin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 brought | obj |
| 34 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 35 yourselves | case |
| 35 | yourselves | yourselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 33 ruin | nmod |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 country | cc |
| 37 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 39 country | case |
| 38 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 39 country | nmod:poss |
| 39 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 ruin | conj |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 25 one | punct |
| 41 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 brought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring | past · passive | a multitude of Christian prisoners | then | one of that traitorous family parataxis; forth property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | cry out speech: express | past | Alahor | the wife of Count Julian | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | bring in a quote | present · perfect · passive | that traitorous family | ruin and your country obj | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Destination ruin=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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