Legends of the conquest of Spain, Of Count Julian., sentence 3
Among the foremost of these was Count Julian, a man destined to be infamously renowned in the dark story of his country’s woes.
Who acts: foremost · What happens: be, destine, renown · To what, where: man, dark story
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 (foremost), 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 | Among | among | ADP | _ | 3 foremost | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 foremost | det |
| 3 | foremost | foremost | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 Count | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 these | case |
| 5 | these | this | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 3 foremost | obl |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 Count | cop |
| 7 | Count | count | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | Julian | Julian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Count | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 man | punct |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 man | det |
| 11 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 Julian | appos |
| 12 | destined | destine | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 man | acl |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 renowned | mark |
| 14 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 16 renowned | aux:pass |
| 15 | infamously | infamously | ADV | _ | 16 renowned | advmod |
| 16 | renowned | renown | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 destined | advcl |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 story | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 story | det |
| 19 | dark | dark | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 story | amod |
| 20 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 renowned | obl |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 woes | case |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 country | nmod:poss |
| 23 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 woes | nmod:poss |
| 24 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 23 country | case |
| 25 | woes | woe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 story | nmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 Count | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the foremost of these | Julian obj; count property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | destine | participle | a man not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | renown | to-infinitive · passive | the dark story of man's country's woes | infamously property | 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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