Legends of the conquest of Spain, Legend of Count Julian and His Family., sentence 19
He assembled round him every pleasure and gratification that boundless wealth could purchase; but all in vain.
Who acts: tree, boundless wealth · What happens: assemble, purchase · To what, where: pleasure
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, boundless wealth), 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 assembled | nsubj |
| 2 | assembled | assemble | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | round | round | ADP | _ | 4 him | case |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 assembled | obl |
| 5 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 6 pleasure | det |
| 6 | pleasure | pleasure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 assembled | obj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 gratification | cc |
| 8 | gratification | gratification | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 pleasure | conj |
| 9 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 purchase | obj |
| 10 | boundless | boundless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 wealth | amod |
| 11 | wealth | wealth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 purchase | nsubj |
| 12 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 purchase | aux |
| 13 | purchase | purchase | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 pleasure | acl:relcl |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 vain | punct |
| 15 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 18 vain | cc |
| 16 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 18 vain | nsubj |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 vain | case |
| 18 | vain | vain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 assembled | conj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 assembled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | assemble | past | tree | every pleasure and gratification | round wrong | vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent pleasure=Theme | |||
| 2 | purchase | could | boundless wealth | every pleasure and gratification | vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset that=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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