Legends of the conquest of Spain, The Story of Florinda., sentence 13
In a remote part of the palace was an apartment devoted to the queen.
What happens: be, devote · To what, where: apartment, remote part, queen
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: 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 4 part | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 part | det |
| 3 | remote | remote | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 part | amod |
| 4 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 apartment | obl |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 palace | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 palace | det |
| 7 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 part | nmod |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 apartment | cop |
| 9 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 apartment | det |
| 10 | apartment | apartment | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 11 | devoted | devote | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 apartment | acl |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 queen | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 queen | det |
| 14 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 devoted | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 apartment | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | a apartment | a remote part of the palace | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | devote | participle | a apartment not said here | the queen | vn dedicate-79 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent to queen=Goal |
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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