Legends of the conquest of Spain, Of Count Julian., sentence 13

It was a custom among the Goths to rear many of the children of the most illustrious families in the royal household.

Who acts: confidence · What happens: be, rear · To what, where: custom, many

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 (confidence), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 custom	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 custom	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 custom	det
4	custom	custom	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	among	among	ADP	_	7 Goths	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Goths	det
7	Goths	Goth	PROPN	Number=Plur	4 custom	nmod
8	to	to	PART	_	9 rear	mark
9	rear	rear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 custom	acl
10	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 rear	obj
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 children	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 children	det
13	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 many	nmod
14	of	of	ADP	_	18 families	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 families	det
16	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	17 illustrious	advmod
17	illustrious	illustrious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 families	amod
18	families	family	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 children	nmod
19	in	in	ADP	_	22 household	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 household	det
21	royal	royal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 household	amod
22	household	household	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 families	nmod
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 custom	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	confidence	a custom				among the Goths	tree rules
2	rear	to-infinitive		many of the children of the illustrious families in the royal household					vn rear-26.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent many=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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🌲 Legends of the conquest of Spain, Of Count Julian., sentence 13

The tree

Pragmatics

Legends of the conquest of Spain, Of Count Julian., sentence 13