Legends of the conquest of Spain, Legend of Count Julian and His Family., sentence 61
The messenger found him plunged in affliction for the recent death of his daughter.
Who acts: messenger, astrologer, daughter · What happens: find, plunge, die · To what, where: astrologer
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 (messenger, astrologer, daughter), 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 messenger | det |
| 2 | messenger | messenger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 found | nsubj |
| 3 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 found | obj |
| 5 | plunged | plunge | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 found | xcomp |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 affliction | case |
| 7 | affliction | affliction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 plunged | obl |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 death | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 death | det |
| 10 | recent | recent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 death | amod |
| 11 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 plunged | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 daughter | case |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 14 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 death | nmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 found | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | past | the messenger | astrologer | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent he=Attribute clause=Theme | ||||
| 2 | plunge | participle | astrologer not said here | for the recent death of astrologer's daughter; in affliction | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in affliction=Attribute | ||||
| 3 | die | astrologer's daughter | nom death «event intransitive»: of=agent |
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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