Legends of the conquest of Spain, Legend of Count Julian and His Family., sentence 85
There were fifty Moorish soldiers in the garrison; she feared that they would prove treacherous, and take part with their countrymen.
Who acts: fifty Moorish soldiers, Frandina, soldiers · What happens: be, fear, prove, take · To what, where: treacherous, part
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 (fifty Moorish soldiers, Frandina, soldiers), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 were | expl |
| 2 | were | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | fifty | fifty | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 soldiers | nummod |
| 4 | Moorish | moorish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 soldiers | amod |
| 5 | soldiers | soldier | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 were | nsubj |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 garrison | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 garrison | det |
| 8 | garrison | garrison | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 soldiers | nmod |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 feared | punct |
| 10 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 feared | nsubj |
| 11 | feared | fear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 were | conj |
| 12 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 15 prove | mark |
| 13 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 prove | nsubj |
| 14 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 prove | aux |
| 15 | prove | prove | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 feared | advcl |
| 16 | treacherous | treacherou | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 prove | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 take | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 take | cc |
| 19 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 prove | conj |
| 20 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 take | obj |
| 21 | with | with | ADP | _ | 23 countrymen | case |
| 22 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 countrymen | nmod:poss |
| 23 | countrymen | countryman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 take | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 were | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | fifty Moorish soldiers in the garrison | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | fear | past | Frandina | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | prove | would | soldiers = soldier | treacherous | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent treacherou=Theme | ||||
| 4 | take | infinitive | soldiers = soldier not said here | part | with soldiers's countrymen | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent part=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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