Legends of the conquest of Spain, Legend of Count Julian and His Family., sentence 45
A sudden insurrection of the Christians who had taken refuge in the Asturian mountains quickened his suspicions, and inspired him with fears of some dangerous conspiracy against his power.
Who acts: sudden insurrection, insurrection · What happens: take, quicken, inspire, suspect, fear · To what, where: refuge, Asturian mountains, suspicions, insurrection, dangerous conspiracy
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 (sudden insurrection, insurrection), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 insurrection | det |
| 2 | sudden | sudden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 insurrection | amod |
| 3 | insurrection | insurrection | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 quickened | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 Christians | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Christians | det |
| 6 | Christians | Christian | PROPN | Number=Plur | 3 insurrection | nmod |
| 7 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 taken | nsubj |
| 8 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 taken | aux |
| 9 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 insurrection | acl:relcl |
| 10 | refuge | refuge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 taken | obj |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 mountains | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 mountains | det |
| 13 | Asturian | Asturian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 mountains | compound |
| 14 | mountains | mountain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 taken | obl |
| 15 | quickened | quicken | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 suspicions | nmod:poss |
| 17 | suspicions | suspicion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 quickened | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 inspired | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 inspired | cc |
| 20 | inspired | inspire | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 quickened | conj |
| 21 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 inspired | obj |
| 22 | with | with | ADP | _ | 23 fears | case |
| 23 | fears | fear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 inspired | obl |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 conspiracy | case |
| 25 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 27 conspiracy | det |
| 26 | dangerous | dangerous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 conspiracy | amod |
| 27 | conspiracy | conspiracy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 fears | nmod |
| 28 | against | against | ADP | _ | 30 power | case |
| 29 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 power | nmod:poss |
| 30 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 conspiracy | nmod |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 quickened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past · perfect | a sudden insurrection of the Christians | refuge | the Asturian mountains | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent refuge=Value in mountain=Location | |||
| 2 | quicken | past | a sudden insurrection of the Christians | insurrection's suspicions | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent suspicion=Patient | ||||
| 3 | inspire | past | a sudden insurrection of the Christians not said here | insurrection | with fears of some dangerous conspiracy against insurrection's power | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus he=Experiencer | |||
| 4 | suspect | insurrection | nom suspicion «cognition transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 5 | fear | some dangerous conspiracy against insurrection's power | nom fear «feeling 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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