Legends of the conquest of Spain, Of Count Julian., sentence 15
When about to depart for Ceuta, to resume his command, Don Julian brought his daughter Florinda to present her to the sovereigns.
Who acts: command, Ceuta · What happens: depart, resume, bring, present, command · To what, where: daughter, Florinda, sovereigns · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (command, Ceuta), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 depart | advmod |
| 2 | about | about | ADP | _ | 4 depart | case |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 depart | mark |
| 4 | depart | depart | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 Ceuta | case |
| 6 | Ceuta | Ceuta | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 depart | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 resume | punct |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 resume | mark |
| 9 | resume | resume | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 4 depart | conj |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 command | nmod:poss |
| 11 | command | command | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 brought | nsubj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 Don | punct |
| 13 | Don | Don | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 command | appos |
| 14 | Julian | Julian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Don | flat |
| 15 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 resume | parataxis |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 17 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 brought | obj |
| 18 | Florinda | Florinda | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 daughter | appos |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 present | mark |
| 20 | present | present | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 brought | advcl |
| 21 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 present | obj |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 sovereigns | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 sovereigns | det |
| 24 | sovereigns | sovereign | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 present | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 depart | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | depart | to-infinitive | for Ceuta | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | resume | to-infinitive | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | ||||||
| 3 | bring | past | Ceuta's command | Don's daughter | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument daughter=Destination | ||||
| 4 | present | to-infinitive | Ceuta's command not said here | Florinda | the sovereigns | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Theme to sovereign=Recipient | |||
| 5 | command | Ceuta | nom command «communication 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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