Legends of the conquest of Spain, The Story of Florinda., sentence 12
The following is the story of his error, as gathered from an old chronicle and legend.
Who acts: charm · What happens: follow, be, gather, err · To what, where: story, old chronicle
This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, The Story of Florinda.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (charm), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 story | det |
| 2 | following | follow | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 story | case |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 story | cop |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 story | det |
| 5 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 error | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 error | nmod:poss |
| 8 | error | error | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 story | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 gathered | punct |
| 10 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 11 gathered | mark |
| 11 | gathered | gather | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 story | acl |
| 12 | from | from | ADP | _ | 15 chronicle | case |
| 13 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 chronicle | det |
| 14 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 chronicle | amod |
| 15 | chronicle | chronicle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 gathered | obl |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 legend | cc |
| 17 | legend | legend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 chronicle | conj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 story | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | follow | gerund | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | is | present | follow the story; of charm's error | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | gather | participle | the story not said here | a old chronicle and legend | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent from chronicle=Source | ||||
| 4 | err | charm | nom error «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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