Legends of the conquest of Spain, Legend of Count Julian and His Family., sentence 36
So saying, she threw herself headlong from the tower, and was dashed to pieces.
Who acts: presence · What happens: say, throw, dash · To what, where: presence, pieces · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 2 saying | advmod |
| 2 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 threw | advcl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 saying | punct |
| 4 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 threw | nsubj |
| 5 | threw | throw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 5 threw | obj |
| 7 | headlong | headlong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 threw | xcomp |
| 8 | from | from | ADP | _ | 10 tower | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 tower | det |
| 10 | tower | tower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 headlong | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 dashed | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 dashed | cc |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 dashed | aux:pass |
| 14 | dashed | dash | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 threw | conj |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 pieces | case |
| 16 | pieces | piece | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 dashed | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 threw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | gerund | presence not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | throw | past | presence | presence | headlong property | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent herself=Theme | |||
| 3 | dash | past · passive | presence not said here | pieces | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: to piece=Destination |
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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