Legends of the conquest of Spain, The Story of Florinda., sentence 14
It was like an eastern harem, shut up from the foot of man, and where the king himself but rarely entered.
Who acts: apartment, king · What happens: be, shut up, enter · To what, where: eastern harem, foot
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 (apartment, 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 harem | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 harem | cop |
| 3 | like | like | ADP | _ | 6 harem | case |
| 4 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 harem | det |
| 5 | eastern | eastern | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 harem | amod |
| 6 | harem | harem | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 shut | punct |
| 8 | shut | shut | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 harem | acl |
| 9 | up | up | ADP | _ | 8 shut | compound:prt |
| 10 | from | from | ADP | _ | 12 foot | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 foot | det |
| 12 | foot | foot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 shut | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 man | case |
| 14 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 foot | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 entered | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 entered | cc |
| 17 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 23 entered | advmod |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 king | det |
| 19 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 entered | nsubj |
| 20 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes | 19 king | nmod:unmarked |
| 21 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 19 king | cc |
| 22 | rarely | rarely | ADV | _ | 23 entered | advmod |
| 23 | entered | enter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 harem | acl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 harem | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | apartment | like a eastern harem | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | shut up | participle | a eastern harem not said here | the foot of man | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | enter | past | the king king | rarely property | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V»: agent=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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