Legends of the conquest of Spain, Of Count Julian., sentence 14
They served as pages to the king, and handmaids and ladies of honour to the queen, and were instructed in all manner of accomplishments befitting their gentle blood.
Who acts: Goths, handmaids, accomplishments · What happens: serve, lady, instruct, befit · To what, where: manner, gentle blood
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 (Goths, handmaids, accomplishments), 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 | 2 served | nsubj |
| 2 | served | serve | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | as | as | ADP | _ | 4 pages | case |
| 4 | pages | page | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 served | obl |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 king | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 king | det |
| 7 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 served | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 ladies | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 ladies | cc |
| 10 | handmaids | handmaid | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 ladies | nsubj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 ladies | cc |
| 12 | ladies | lady | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 served | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 honour | case |
| 14 | honour | honour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 ladies | nmod |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 queen | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 queen | det |
| 17 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 honour | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 instructed | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 instructed | cc |
| 20 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 instructed | aux:pass |
| 21 | instructed | instruct | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 served | conj |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 manner | case |
| 23 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 24 manner | det |
| 24 | manner | manner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 instructed | obl |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 accomplishments | case |
| 26 | accomplishments | accomplishment | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 manner | nmod |
| 27 | befitting | befit | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 26 accomplishments | acl |
| 28 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 blood | nmod:poss |
| 29 | gentle | gentle | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 blood | amod |
| 30 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 befitting | obj |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 served | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | serve | past | Goths = goth | as pages; to the king | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Agent as page=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | lady | handmaids | of honour to the queen | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | instruct speech: other | past · passive | Goths = goth not said here | all manner of accomplishments | vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V PP.topic» | ||||
| 4 | befit | gerund | accomplishments not said here | Goths's gentle blood | tree rules |
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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