Legends of the conquest of Spain, Of Count Julian., sentence 16
She was a beautiful virgin, that had not as yet attained to womanhood.
Who acts: Florinda · What happens: be, not attain · To what, where: beautiful virgin, that
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 (Florinda), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 virgin | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 virgin | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 virgin | det |
| 4 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 virgin | amod |
| 5 | virgin | virgin | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 attained | punct |
| 7 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 attained | obj |
| 8 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 attained | aux |
| 9 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 attained | advmod |
| 10 | as | as | ADV | _ | 12 attained | advmod |
| 11 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 12 attained | advmod |
| 12 | attained | attain | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 virgin | conj |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 womanhood | case |
| 14 | womanhood | womanhood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 attained | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 virgin | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | Florinda | a beautiful virgin | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not attain | past · perfect | Florinda not said here | that | yet | to womanhood | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Theme |
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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