Legends of the conquest of Spain, Of Count Julian., sentence 19
King Roderick received the timid and blushing maiden into his paternal care; promising to watch over her happiness with a parent’s eye, and that she should be enrolled among the most cherished attendants of the queen.
Who acts: King · What happens: receive, blush, promise, watch, enroll, cherish · To what, where: timid, happiness, Florinda
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 (King), 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 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 received | nsubj |
| 2 | Roderick | Roderick | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 King | flat |
| 3 | received | receive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 timid | det |
| 5 | timid | timid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 received | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 blushing | cc |
| 7 | blushing | blush | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 timid | conj |
| 8 | maiden | maiden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 blushing | xcomp |
| 9 | into | into | ADP | _ | 12 care | case |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 care | nmod:poss |
| 11 | paternal | paternal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 care | amod |
| 12 | care | care | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 maiden | obl |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 promising | punct |
| 14 | promising | promise | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 received | advcl |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 watch | mark |
| 16 | watch | watch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 promising | xcomp |
| 17 | over | over | ADP | _ | 19 happiness | case |
| 18 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 happiness | nmod:poss |
| 19 | happiness | happiness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 watch | obl |
| 20 | with | with | ADP | _ | 24 eye | case |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 parent | det |
| 22 | parent | parent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 eye | nmod:poss |
| 23 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 22 parent | case |
| 24 | eye | eye | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 happiness | nmod |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 enrolled | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 enrolled | cc |
| 27 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 31 enrolled | mark |
| 28 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 enrolled | nsubj:pass |
| 29 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 31 enrolled | aux |
| 30 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 31 enrolled | aux:pass |
| 31 | enrolled | enroll | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 received | conj |
| 32 | among | among | ADP | _ | 36 attendants | case |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 attendants | det |
| 34 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 35 cherished | advmod |
| 35 | cherished | cherish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 36 attendants | amod |
| 36 | attendants | attendant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 enrolled | obl |
| 37 | of | of | ADP | _ | 39 queen | case |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 queen | det |
| 39 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 attendants | nmod |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 received | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | receive | past | King | the timid | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent timid=Theme | ||||
| 2 | blush | gerund | King not said here | maiden property | vn hiccup-40.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | promise speech: promise | gerund | King not said here | vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | watch not said to happen | to-infinitive | King not said here | Florinda's happiness with a parent's eye | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent over happiness=Location | ||||
| 5 | enroll | should · passive | Florinda | among the cherished attendants of the queen | vn involve-107.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 6 | cherish | participle | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 7 | care | king | nom care «act intransitive»: 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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