Legends of the conquest of Spain, Of the Loves of Roderick and the Princess Elyata., sentence 38
Roderick forthwith employed the Archbishop of Toledo to instruct the beautiful Elyata in the mysteries of the Christian faith.
Who acts: Roderick · What happens: employ, instruct · To what, where: Archbishop, beautiful Elyata, mysteries
This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Of the Loves of Roderick and the Princess Elyata.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Roderick), 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 | Roderick | Roderick | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 employed | nsubj |
| 2 | forthwith | forthwith | ADV | _ | 3 employed | advmod |
| 3 | employed | employ | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Archbishop | det |
| 5 | Archbishop | Archbishop | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 employed | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 Toledo | case |
| 7 | Toledo | Toledo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Archbishop | nmod |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 instruct | mark |
| 9 | instruct | instruct | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 employed | advcl |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Elyata | det |
| 11 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 Elyata | amod |
| 12 | Elyata | Elyata | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 instruct | obj |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 mysteries | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 mysteries | det |
| 15 | mysteries | mystery | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 instruct | obl |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 faith | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 faith | det |
| 18 | Christian | Christian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 faith | amod |
| 19 | faith | faith | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 mysteries | nmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 employed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | employ | past | Roderick | the Archbishop of Toledo | forthwith property | vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent archbishop=Theme | |||
| 2 | instruct speech: other | to-infinitive | Roderick not said here | the beautiful Elyata | the mysteries of the Christian faith | vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent elyata=Recipient |
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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