Legends of the conquest of Spain, Legend of Count Julian and His Family., sentence 2
It is a story full of wholesome admonition, rebuking the insolence of human pride, and the vanity of human ambition, and showing the futility of all greatness that is not strongly based on virtue.
Who acts: story · What happens: be, rebuke, show, not be · To what, where: story, insolence, futility, greatness, virtue
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 (story), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 story | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 story | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 story | det |
| 4 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 story | amod |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 admonition | case |
| 7 | wholesome | wholesome | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 admonition | amod |
| 8 | admonition | admonition | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 full | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 rebuking | punct |
| 10 | rebuking | rebuke | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 story | appos |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 insolence | det |
| 12 | insolence | insolence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 rebuking | obj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 pride | case |
| 14 | human | human | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 pride | amod |
| 15 | pride | pride | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 insolence | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 vanity | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 vanity | cc |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 vanity | det |
| 19 | vanity | vanity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 insolence | conj |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 ambition | case |
| 21 | human | human | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 ambition | amod |
| 22 | ambition | ambition | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 vanity | nmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 showing | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 showing | cc |
| 25 | showing | show | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 rebuking | conj |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 futility | det |
| 27 | futility | futility | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 showing | obj |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 greatness | case |
| 29 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 30 greatness | det |
| 30 | greatness | greatness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 futility | nmod |
| 31 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 35 based | nsubj:pass |
| 32 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 35 based | cop |
| 33 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 35 based | advmod |
| 34 | strongly | strongly | ADV | _ | 35 based | advmod |
| 35 | based | base | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 30 greatness | acl:relcl |
| 36 | on | on | ADP | _ | 37 virtue | case |
| 37 | virtue | virtue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 based | obl |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 story | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | story | a story | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | rebuke | gerund | the insolence of human pride and the vanity of human ambition | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent insolence=Theme | |||||
| 3 | show | gerund | the futility of all greatness | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent futility=Recipient | |||||
| 4 | not is | present · passive | all greatness | virtue | base, strongly property | 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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