Legends of the conquest of Spain, The Story of Florinda., sentence 15
It had its own courts, and gardens, and fountains, where the queen was wont to recreate herself with her damsels, as she had been accustomed to do in the jealous privacy of her father’s palace.
Who acts: apartment, queen · What happens: have, be, recreate, accustom, do · To what, where: own courts, Exilona, jealous privacy
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, queen), 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 | 2 had | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 courts | nmod:poss |
| 4 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 courts | amod |
| 5 | courts | court | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 had | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 gardens | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 gardens | cc |
| 8 | gardens | garden | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 had | parataxis |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 fountains | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 fountains | cc |
| 11 | fountains | fountain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 had | parataxis |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 wont | punct |
| 13 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 17 wont | advmod |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 queen | det |
| 15 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 wont | nsubj |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 wont | cop |
| 17 | wont | wont | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 fountains | conj |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 recreate | mark |
| 19 | recreate | recreate | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 wont | xcomp |
| 20 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 19 recreate | obj |
| 21 | with | with | ADP | _ | 23 damsels | case |
| 22 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 damsels | nmod:poss |
| 23 | damsels | damsel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 recreate | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 accustomed | punct |
| 25 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 29 accustomed | mark |
| 26 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 accustomed | nsubj |
| 27 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 accustomed | aux |
| 28 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 29 accustomed | aux:pass |
| 29 | accustomed | accustom | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 recreate | advcl |
| 30 | to | to | PART | _ | 31 do | mark |
| 31 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 29 accustomed | xcomp |
| 32 | in | in | ADP | _ | 35 privacy | case |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 privacy | det |
| 34 | jealous | jealous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 privacy | amod |
| 35 | privacy | privacy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 do | obl |
| 36 | of | of | ADP | _ | 40 palace | case |
| 37 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 38 father | nmod:poss |
| 38 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 palace | nmod:poss |
| 39 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 38 father | case |
| 40 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 privacy | nmod |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | apartment | apartment's own courts | gardens parataxis; fountains parataxis | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent court=Patient | |||
| 2 | is | past | the queen | wont property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | recreate | to-infinitive | the queen not said here | Exilona | with Exilona's damsels | tree rules | |||
| 4 | accustom | past · perfect · passive | Exilona | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | do | to-infinitive | the jealous privacy of Exilona's father's palace | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=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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