Legends of the conquest of Spain, Legend of Count Julian and His Family., sentence 4
It remains to close this eventful history, by holding up as a signal warning the fate of the traitor, whose perfidious scheme of vengeance brought ruin on his native land.
Who acts: space, traitor · What happens: remain, close, hold up, warn, bring, fate · To what, where: eventful history, fate, traitor, vengeance brought 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 (space, traitor), 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 | 2 remains | nsubj |
| 2 | remains | remain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 close | mark |
| 4 | close | close | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 remains | xcomp |
| 5 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 history | det |
| 6 | eventful | eventful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 history | amod |
| 7 | history | history | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 close | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 holding | punct |
| 9 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 10 holding | mark |
| 10 | holding | hold | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 remains | advcl |
| 11 | up | up | ADP | _ | 10 holding | compound:prt |
| 12 | as | as | ADP | _ | 14 signal | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 signal | det |
| 14 | signal | signal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 holding | obl |
| 15 | warning | warn | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 holding | conj |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 fate | det |
| 17 | fate | fate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 warning | obj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 traitor | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 traitor | det |
| 20 | traitor | traitor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 fate | nmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 scheme | punct |
| 22 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 24 scheme | nmod:poss |
| 23 | perfidious | perfidious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 scheme | amod |
| 24 | scheme | scheme | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 traitor | appos |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 ruin | case |
| 26 | vengeance | vengeance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 ruin | compound |
| 27 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 28 ruin | amod |
| 28 | ruin | ruin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 scheme | nmod |
| 29 | on | on | ADP | _ | 32 land | case |
| 30 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 land | nmod:poss |
| 31 | native | native | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 land | amod |
| 32 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 ruin | nmod |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 remains | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | remain | present | space | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | close | to-infinitive | space not said here | this eventful history | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent history=Patient | ||||
| 3 | hold up | gerund | space not said here | as a signal | vn support-15.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot | ||||
| 4 | warn speech: warn | gerund | space not said here | the fate of the traitor | vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent fate=Recipient | ||||
| 5 | bring | participle | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 6 | fate | the traitor | nom fate «event transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 7 | scheme | the traitor | vengeance brought ruin on Spain's native land | nom scheme «cognition transitive»: poss=agent 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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