Legends of the conquest of Spain, Legend of Count Julian and His Family., sentence 18
For a time, he sought in luxurious indulgence to soothe, or forget, the miseries of the mind.
Who acts: tree · What happens: seek, soothe, forget · To what, where: luxurious indulgence, miseries
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), 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 | For | for | ADP | _ | 3 time | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 time | det |
| 3 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 sought | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 time | punct |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 sought | nsubj |
| 6 | sought | seek | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 indulgence | case |
| 8 | luxurious | luxurious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 indulgence | amod |
| 9 | indulgence | indulgence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 sought | obl |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 soothe | mark |
| 11 | soothe | soothe | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 sought | advcl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 forget | punct |
| 13 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 14 forget | cc |
| 14 | forget | forget | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 soothe | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 miseries | punct |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 miseries | det |
| 17 | miseries | misery | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 forget | obj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 mind | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 mind | det |
| 20 | mind | mind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 miseries | nmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 sought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seek | past | tree | luxurious indulgence | time | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent in indulgence=Location | |||
| 2 | soothe | to-infinitive | tree not said here | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | forget | infinitive | tree not said here | the miseries of the mind | 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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