Legends of the conquest of Spain, Legend of Count Julian and His Family., sentence 53

He received Alahor with a gloomy and sinister aspect; pretending to have discovered fearful portents in the heavens, and to have had strange dreams and mystic visions.

Who acts: astrologer · What happens: receive, pretend, discover, have · To what, where: Alahor, fearful portents, heavens, strange dreams

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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 received	nsubj
2	received	receive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	Alahor	Alahor	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 received	obj
4	with	with	ADP	_	9 aspect	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 aspect	det
6	gloomy	gloomy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 aspect	amod
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 aspect	cc
8	sinister	sinister	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 aspect	compound
9	aspect	aspect	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 received	obl
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	11 pretending	punct
11	pretending	pretend	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 received	advcl
12	to	to	PART	_	14 discovered	mark
13	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	14 discovered	aux
14	discovered	discover	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	11 pretending	xcomp
15	fearful	fearful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 portents	amod
16	portents	portent	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 discovered	obj
17	in	in	ADP	_	19 heavens	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 heavens	det
19	heavens	heaven	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 discovered	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 had	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 had	cc
22	to	to	PART	_	24 had	mark
23	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	24 had	aux
24	had	have	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	14 discovered	parataxis
25	strange	strange	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 dreams	amod
26	dreams	dream	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 had	obj
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 visions	cc
28	mystic	mystic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 visions	amod
29	visions	vision	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 dreams	conj
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 received	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	receive	past	astrologer	Alahor		with a gloomy sinister aspect	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent alahor=Theme
2	pretend	gerund	astrologer not said here				tree rules
3	discover	to-infinitive · perfect	astrologer not said here	fearful portents	the heavens		vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent portent=Topic
4	have	to-infinitive · perfect		strange dreams and mystic visions			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dream=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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🌲 Legends of the conquest of Spain, Legend of Count Julian and His Family., sentence 53

The tree

Pragmatics

Legends of the conquest of Spain, Legend of Count Julian and His Family., sentence 53