Legends of the conquest of Spain, Legend of Count Julian and His Family., sentence 168
So the cruel order was executed, and the Countess Frandina perished by the hands of her countrymen.
Who acts: hands · What happens: execute, perish · To what, where: cruel order, Countess Frandina
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 (hands), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 6 executed | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 order | det |
| 3 | cruel | cruel | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 order | amod |
| 4 | order | order | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 executed | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 executed | aux:pass |
| 6 | executed | execute | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 perished | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 perished | cc |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Frandina | det |
| 10 | Countess | Countess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Frandina | compound |
| 11 | Frandina | Frandina | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 perished | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | perished | perish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 executed | parataxis |
| 13 | by | by | ADP | _ | 15 hands | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 hands | det |
| 15 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 perished | obl |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 countrymen | case |
| 17 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 countrymen | nmod:poss |
| 18 | countrymen | countryman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 hands | nmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 executed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | execute | past · passive | the cruel order | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 2 | perish | participle · passive | the hands of Frandina's countrymen | the Countess Frandina | tree rules |
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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