Legends of the conquest of Spain, Legend of Count Julian and His Family., sentence 21
He sent to Ceuta for his wife Frandina, his daughter Florinda, and his youthful son Alarbot; hoping in the bosom of his family to find that sympathy and kindness which he could no longer meet with in the world.
Who acts: tree, sympathy · What happens: send, hope, find, meet, bosom · To what, where: Florinda, Ceuta, bosom, sympathy, family
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, sympathy), 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 sent | nsubj |
| 2 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 4 Ceuta | case |
| 4 | Ceuta | Ceuta | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 sent | obl |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 wife | case |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 wife | nmod:poss |
| 7 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 sent | obl |
| 8 | Frandina | Frandina | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 wife | appos |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 Florinda | punct |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 11 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 Florinda | nmod:desc |
| 12 | Florinda | Florinda | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 sent | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 son | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 son | cc |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 son | nmod:poss |
| 16 | youthful | youthful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 son | amod |
| 17 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 sent | vocative |
| 18 | Alarbot | Alarbot | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 son | appos |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 hoping | punct |
| 20 | hoping | hope | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 sent | advcl |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 bosom | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 bosom | det |
| 23 | bosom | bosom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 hoping | obl |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 family | case |
| 25 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 family | nmod:poss |
| 26 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 bosom | nmod |
| 27 | to | to | PART | _ | 28 find | mark |
| 28 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 hoping | advcl |
| 29 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 30 sympathy | det |
| 30 | sympathy | sympathy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 find | obj |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 kindness | cc |
| 32 | kindness | kindness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 sympathy | conj |
| 33 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 38 meet | nsubj |
| 34 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 meet | nsubj |
| 35 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 38 meet | aux |
| 36 | no | no | ADV | _ | 37 longer | advmod |
| 37 | longer | long | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 38 meet | advmod |
| 38 | meet | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 30 sympathy | acl:relcl |
| 39 | with | with | ADP | _ | 42 world | case |
| 40 | in | in | ADP | _ | 42 world | case |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 world | det |
| 42 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 meet | obl |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 sent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | send | past | tree | Florinda tree's daughter | Ceuta | for tree's wife; tree's youthful son vocative | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent to ceuta=Destination | ||
| 2 | hope | gerund | tree not said here | the bosom of tree's family | vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot | ||||
| 3 | find | to-infinitive | tree not said here | that sympathy and kindness | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sympathy=Topic | ||||
| 4 | meet | could | that sympathy and kindness | with the world; tree nsubj; long property | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with world=Co-Agent | ||||
| 5 | bosom | tree's family | nom bosom «state 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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