Legends of the conquest of Spain, Legend of Count Julian and His Family., sentence 81
His coming and going were alike without noise, and the door of the chamber remained fast bolted.
Who acts: crime, coming, door · What happens: come, go, be, remain, bolt
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 (crime, coming, door), 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 | Gender=Masc Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 coming | nsubj |
| 2 | coming | come | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 alike | csubj |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 going | cc |
| 4 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 coming | conj |
| 5 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 alike | cop |
| 6 | alike | alike | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | without | without | ADP | _ | 8 noise | case |
| 8 | noise | noise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 alike | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 remained | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 remained | cc |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 door | det |
| 12 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 remained | nsubj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 chamber | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 chamber | det |
| 15 | chamber | chamber | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 door | nmod |
| 16 | remained | remain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 alike | conj |
| 17 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 18 bolted | advmod |
| 18 | bolted | bolt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 remained | advcl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 alike | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | gerund | crime | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | go | gerund | crime not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | is | past | coming | without noise; alike property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | remain | past | the door of the chamber | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | bolt | participle | the door of the chamber not said here | fast property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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