Legends of the conquest of Spain, Legend of Count Julian and His Family., sentence 79
His innocence might have secured him the protection of Heaven, but our crimes have involved him in our common ruin.”
Who acts: our · What happens: secure, involve, protect, incriminate, ruin · To what, where: innocence, crimes, common ruin, Heaven
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 (our), 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 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 innocence | nmod:poss |
| 2 | innocence | innocence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 secured | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 secured | aux |
| 4 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 secured | aux |
| 5 | secured | secure | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 secured | obj |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 protection | det |
| 8 | protection | protection | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 secured | obj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 Heaven | case |
| 10 | Heaven | Heaven | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 protection | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 involved | punct |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 involved | cc |
| 13 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 crimes | nmod:poss |
| 14 | crimes | crime | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 involved | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 involved | aux |
| 16 | involved | involve | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 secured | conj |
| 17 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 involved | obj |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 ruin | case |
| 19 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 ruin | nmod:poss |
| 20 | common | common | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 ruin | amod |
| 21 | ruin | ruin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 involved | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 secured | punct |
| 23 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 secured | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | secure | might · perfect · passive | guard's innocence | guard obj; the protection of Heaven obj | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | involve | present · perfect · passive | our crimes | our common ruin | guard obj | tree rules | |||
| 3 | protect | Heaven | nom protection «act transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 4 | incriminate | our | nom crime «act transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 5 | ruin | our | nom ruin «state transitive»: poss=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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