Legends of the conquest of Spain, Legend of Count Julian and His Family., sentence 17
He tried in vain to persuade himself that he had but taken a justifiable vengeance: he felt that no personal wrong can justify the crime of treason to one’s country.
Who acts: tree, personal wrong · What happens: try, persuade, have, take, feel, justify · To what, where: vain, tree, justifiable vengeance, crime, one country, treason
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 (tree, personal wrong), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 tried | nsubj |
| 2 | tried | try | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 vain | case |
| 4 | vain | vain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 tried | obl |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 persuade | mark |
| 6 | persuade | persuade | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 tried | xcomp |
| 7 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 6 persuade | obj |
| 8 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 10 had | mark |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 had | nsubj |
| 10 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 persuade | advcl |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 taken | cc |
| 12 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 had | conj |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 vengeance | det |
| 14 | justifiable | justifiable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 vengeance | amod |
| 15 | vengeance | vengeance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 taken | obj |
| 16 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 18 felt | punct |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 felt | nsubj |
| 18 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 tried | conj |
| 19 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 24 justify | mark |
| 20 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 22 wrong | det |
| 21 | personal | personal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 wrong | amod |
| 22 | wrong | wrong | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 justify | nsubj |
| 23 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 justify | aux |
| 24 | justify | justify | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 felt | ccomp |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 crime | det |
| 26 | crime | crime | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 justify | obj |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 treason | case |
| 28 | treason | treason | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 crime | nmod |
| 29 | to | to | ADP | _ | 32 country | case |
| 30 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 32 country | nummod |
| 31 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 30 one | case |
| 32 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 justify | obl |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 tried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | try | past | tree | vain | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | persuade not said to happen | to-infinitive | tree not said here | tree | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Patient | ||||
| 3 | have | past | tree | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | take | participle | tree not said here | a justifiable vengeance | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent vengeance=Theme | ||||
| 5 | feel | past | tree | vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 6 | justify speech: other | can | no personal wrong | the crime of treason | one country | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent crime=Topic to country=Recipient | |||
| 7 | incriminate | treason | nom crime «act transitive»: of=patient |
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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