Legends of the conquest of Spain, Legend of Count Julian and His Family., sentence 89
The remaining fifteen took refuge in a tower.
What happens: remain, take · To what, where: fifteen, refuge, tower
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: 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 remaining | det |
| 2 | remaining | remain | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 took | nsubj |
| 3 | fifteen | fifteen | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 remaining | obj |
| 4 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | refuge | refuge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 took | obj |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 tower | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 tower | det |
| 8 | tower | tower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 took | obl |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | remain | gerund | fifteen | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme fifteen=Attribute | |||||
| 2 | take | past | refuge | a tower | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent refuge=Value in tower=Location |
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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