Legends of the conquest of Spain, Legend of Count Julian and His Family., sentence 62
The count excused himself, on account of this misfortune, from obeying the commands of the emir in person, but sent several of his adherents.
Who acts: count · What happens: excuse, obey, send, account, command · To what, where: Count, account, commands, several, misfortune, emir · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (count), 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 count | det |
| 2 | count | count | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 excused | nsubj |
| 3 | excused | excuse | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 3 excused | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 account | punct |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 account | case |
| 7 | account | account | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 excused | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 misfortune | case |
| 9 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 10 misfortune | det |
| 10 | misfortune | misfortune | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 account | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 obeying | punct |
| 12 | from | from | SCONJ | _ | 13 obeying | mark |
| 13 | obeying | obey | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 excused | advcl |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 commands | det |
| 15 | commands | command | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 obeying | obj |
| 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 commands | nmod |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 person | case |
| 20 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 emir | nmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 sent | punct |
| 22 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 23 sent | cc |
| 23 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 excused | conj |
| 24 | several | several | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 sent | obj |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 adherents | case |
| 26 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 adherents | nmod:poss |
| 27 | adherents | adherent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 several | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 excused | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | excuse | past | the count | Count | account of this misfortune | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Theme | |||
| 2 | obey | gerund | the count not said here | the commands of the emir in person | vn abide_by-93.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent command=Theme | ||||
| 3 | send | past | the count not said here | several of Count's adherents | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent several=Theme | ||||
| 4 | account | this misfortune | nom account «communication transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 5 | command | the emir in person | nom command «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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