Legends of the conquest of Spain, Legend of Count Julian and His Family., sentence 31
When her father sought to embrace her, she withdrew with shuddering from his arms; for she thought of his treason, and the ruin it had brought upon Spain.
Who acts: father, presence · What happens: seek, embrace, withdraw, shudder, think, bring · To what, where: presence, ruin
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 (father, presence), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 sought | advmod |
| 2 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 father | nmod:poss |
| 3 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sought | nsubj |
| 4 | sought | seek | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 withdrew | advcl |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 embrace | mark |
| 6 | embrace | embrace | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 sought | xcomp |
| 7 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 embrace | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 sought | punct |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 withdrew | nsubj |
| 10 | withdrew | withdraw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | with | with | SCONJ | _ | 12 shuddering | mark |
| 12 | shuddering | shudder | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 withdrew | advcl |
| 13 | from | from | ADP | _ | 15 arms | case |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 arms | nmod:poss |
| 15 | arms | arm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 shuddering | obl |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 thought | punct |
| 17 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 19 thought | mark |
| 18 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 thought | nsubj |
| 19 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 withdrew | parataxis |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 treason | case |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 treason | nmod:poss |
| 22 | treason | treason | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 thought | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 brought | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 brought | cc |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 ruin | det |
| 26 | ruin | ruin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 brought | nsubj:pass |
| 27 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 brought | nsubj:pass |
| 28 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 brought | aux |
| 29 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 thought | conj |
| 30 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 31 Spain | case |
| 31 | Spain | Spain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 brought | obl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 withdrew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seek | past | presence's father | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | embrace not said to happen | to-infinitive | presence's father not said here | presence | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Co-Agent | ||||
| 3 | withdraw | past | presence | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | shudder | gerund | presence not said here | from father's arms | vn body_internal_states-40.6 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer from arm=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | think speech: other | past | presence | of father's treason | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 6 | bring | past · perfect · passive | the ruin | upon Spain | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: subject=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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