Legends of the conquest of Spain, Of Count Julian., sentence 12
Count Julian sought to confirm this confidence by every proof of devotion.
Who acts: you, Julian · What happens: count, seek, confirm, proof · To what, where: confidence, devotion
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 (you, 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 | Count | count | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | Julian | Julian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 sought | nsubj |
| 3 | sought | seek | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Count | ccomp |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 confirm | mark |
| 5 | confirm | confirm | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 sought | xcomp |
| 6 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 confidence | det |
| 7 | confidence | confidence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 confirm | obj |
| 8 | by | by | ADP | _ | 10 proof | case |
| 9 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 10 proof | det |
| 10 | proof | proof | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 confirm | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 devotion | case |
| 12 | devotion | devotion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 proof | nmod |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Count | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | count | imperative | you not said here | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: agent=Agent clause=Attribute | |||||
| 2 | seek | past | Julian | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | confirm not said to happen | to-infinitive | Julian not said here | this confidence | by every proof of devotion | vn indicate-78-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot confidence=Topic | |||
| 4 | proof | devotion | nom proof «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
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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