Legends of the conquest of Spain, Of Count Julian., sentence 10
They had hastened, therefore, to pay their court to the newly elevated monarch, and to assure him of their fidelity to his interests.
Who acts: love, Julian · What happens: hasten, pay, elevate, assure, interest · To what, where: court, Julian
This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Of Count Julian.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (love, Julian), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 hastened | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 hastened | aux |
| 3 | hastened | hasten | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 therefore | punct |
| 5 | therefore | therefore | ADV | _ | 3 hastened | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 pay | punct |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 pay | mark |
| 8 | pay | pay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 hastened | conj |
| 9 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 court | nmod:poss |
| 10 | court | court | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 pay | iobj |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 monarch | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 monarch | det |
| 13 | newly | newly | ADV | _ | 14 elevated | advmod |
| 14 | elevated | elevate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 monarch | amod |
| 15 | monarch | monarch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 pay | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 assure | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 assure | cc |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 assure | mark |
| 19 | assure | assure | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 hastened | conj |
| 20 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 assure | obj |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 fidelity | case |
| 22 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 fidelity | nmod:poss |
| 23 | fidelity | fidelity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 assure | obl |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 26 interests | case |
| 25 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 interests | nmod:poss |
| 26 | interests | interest | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 assure | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 hastened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hasten | past · perfect | love | therefore property | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | pay | to-infinitive | love not said here | love's court | to the elevated monarch | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent court=Asset | |||
| 3 | elevate | participle | newly property | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | assure | to-infinitive | love not said here | Julian | of love's fidelity; to Julian's interests | vn advise-37.9 «NP V NP PP.topic»: agent=Agent he=Recipient of fidelity=Topic | |||
| 5 | interest | Julian | nom interest «cognition 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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