Legends of the conquest of Spain, Legend of Count Julian and His Family., sentence 49
To this expounder of mysteries Alahor applied, to learn whether any secret treason menaced his safety.
Who acts: Alahor, secret treason · What happens: apply, learn, menace · To what, where: safety
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 (Alahor, secret treason), 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 | To | to | ADP | _ | 3 expounder | case |
| 2 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 expounder | det |
| 3 | expounder | expounder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 applied | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 mysteries | case |
| 5 | mysteries | mystery | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 expounder | nmod |
| 6 | Alahor | Alahor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 applied | nsubj |
| 7 | applied | apply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 learn | punct |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 learn | mark |
| 10 | learn | learn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 applied | advcl |
| 11 | whether | whether | SCONJ | _ | 15 menaced | mark |
| 12 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 14 treason | det |
| 13 | secret | secret | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 treason | amod |
| 14 | treason | treason | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 menaced | nsubj |
| 15 | menaced | menace | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 learn | advcl |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 safety | nmod:poss |
| 17 | safety | safety | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 menaced | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 applied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | apply | past | Alahor | to this expounder of mysteries | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | learn | to-infinitive | Alahor not said here | vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | menace | past | any secret treason | Suleiman's safety | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus safety=Experiencer |
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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