Legends of the conquest of Spain, Legend of Count Julian and His Family., sentence 47
This son of science was withered in form, and looked as if he had outlived the usual term of mortal life.
Who acts: Suleiman · What happens: wither, look, outlive, term · To what, where: son, form, usual term, mortal life
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 (Suleiman), 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 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 son | det |
| 2 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 withered | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 science | case |
| 4 | science | science | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 son | nmod |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 withered | aux:pass |
| 6 | withered | wither | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 form | case |
| 8 | form | form | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 withered | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 looked | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 looked | cc |
| 11 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 withered | parataxis |
| 12 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 16 outlived | mark |
| 13 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 16 outlived | mark |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 outlived | nsubj |
| 15 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 outlived | aux |
| 16 | outlived | outlive | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 11 looked | ccomp |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 term | det |
| 18 | usual | usual | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 term | amod |
| 19 | term | term | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 outlived | obj |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 life | case |
| 21 | mortal | mortal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 life | amod |
| 22 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 term | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 withered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wither | past · passive | this son of science | form | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | look | past | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | outlive a condition, not said to happen | past · perfect | Suleiman | the usual term of mortal life | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | term | mortal life | nom term «communication 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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