Legends of the conquest of Spain, Legend of Count Julian and His Family., sentence 50
The astrologer listened with deep attention and overwhelming brow to all the surmises and suspicions of the emir; then shut himself up to consult his books, and commune with those supernatural intelligences subservient to his wisdom.
Who acts: astrologer · What happens: listen, shut up, consult, suspect · To what, where: commune subservient, astrologer, books, emir
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 (astrologer), 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 | 2 astrologer | det |
| 2 | astrologer | astrologer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 listened | nsubj |
| 3 | listened | listen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 attention | case |
| 5 | deep | deep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 attention | amod |
| 6 | attention | attention | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 listened | obl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 brow | cc |
| 8 | overwhelming | overwhelming | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 brow | amod |
| 9 | brow | brow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 attention | conj |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 surmises | case |
| 11 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 13 surmises | det:predet |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 surmises | det |
| 13 | surmises | surmise | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 brow | nmod |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 suspicions | cc |
| 15 | suspicions | suspicion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 surmises | conj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 emir | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 emir | det |
| 18 | emir | emir | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 suspicions | nmod |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 shut | punct |
| 20 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 21 shut | advmod |
| 21 | shut | shut | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 listened | conj |
| 22 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 21 shut | obj |
| 23 | up | up | ADP | _ | 21 shut | compound:prt |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 consult | mark |
| 25 | consult | consult | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 shut | advcl |
| 26 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 books | nmod:poss |
| 27 | books | book | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 consult | obj |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 subservient | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 subservient | cc |
| 30 | commune | commune | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 subservient | compound |
| 31 | with | with | ADP | _ | 34 intelligences | case |
| 32 | those | that | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 34 intelligences | det |
| 33 | supernatural | supernatural | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 intelligences | amod |
| 34 | intelligences | intelligence | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 commune | nmod |
| 35 | subservient | subservient | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 listened | obl |
| 36 | to | to | ADP | _ | 38 wisdom | case |
| 37 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 38 wisdom | nmod:poss |
| 38 | wisdom | wisdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 subservient | nmod |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 listened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | listen | past | the astrologer | commune subservient to astrologer's wisdom | with deep attention and overwhelming brow to all surmises and suspicions of the emir | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | shut up | infinitive | the astrologer not said here | astrologer | then | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Patient | |||
| 3 | consult | to-infinitive | the astrologer not said here | astrologer's books | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent book=Theme | ||||
| 4 | suspect | the emir | nom suspicion «cognition 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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