Legends of the conquest of Spain, Legend of Count Julian and His Family., sentence 38
The Countess Frandina abandoned this scene of woe, and returned to Ceuta, accompanied by her infant son.
Who acts: Countess Frandina · What happens: abandon, return, accompany · To what, where: scene, Ceuta
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 (Countess Frandina), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Frandina | det |
| 2 | Countess | Countess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Frandina | compound |
| 3 | Frandina | Frandina | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 abandoned | nsubj |
| 4 | abandoned | abandon | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 scene | det |
| 6 | scene | scene | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 abandoned | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 woe | case |
| 8 | woe | woe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 scene | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 returned | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 returned | cc |
| 11 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 abandoned | conj |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 Ceuta | case |
| 13 | Ceuta | Ceuta | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 returned | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 accompanied | punct |
| 15 | accompanied | accompany | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 abandoned | conj |
| 16 | by | by | ADP | _ | 19 son | case |
| 17 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 son | nmod:poss |
| 18 | infant | infant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 son | amod |
| 19 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 accompanied | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 abandoned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | abandon | past | the Countess Frandina | this scene of woe | vn leave-51.2 «NP V NP.initial_location»: agent=Theme scene=Source | ||||
| 2 | return | past | the Countess Frandina not said here | Ceuta | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to ceuta=Result | ||||
| 3 | accompany | participle | the Countess Frandina not said here | by Frandina's infant son | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent by son=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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