Legends of the conquest of Spain, The Story of Florinda., sentence 16
One sultry day, the king, instead of taking his siesta, or mid-day slumber, repaired to this apartment to seek the society of the queen.
Who acts: king · What happens: take, repair, seek · To what, where: siesta, king, society
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 (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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 day | nummod |
| 2 | sultry | sultry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 day | amod |
| 3 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 repaired | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 day | punct |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 king | det |
| 6 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 repaired | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 taking | punct |
| 8 | instead | instead | ADV | ExtPos=SCONJ | 10 taking | mark |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 instead | fixed |
| 10 | taking | take | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 king | acl:relcl |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 siesta | nmod:poss |
| 12 | siesta | siesta | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 taking | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 slumber | punct |
| 14 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 16 slumber | cc |
| 15 | mid-day | mid-day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 slumber | compound |
| 16 | slumber | slumber | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 siesta | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 repaired | punct |
| 18 | repaired | repair | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 apartment | case |
| 20 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 21 apartment | det |
| 21 | apartment | apartment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 repaired | obl |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 seek | mark |
| 23 | seek | seek | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 repaired | advcl |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 society | det |
| 25 | society | society | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 seek | obj |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 queen | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 queen | det |
| 28 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 society | nmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 repaired | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | gerund | the king not said here | king's siesta or mid-day slumber | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent siesta=Theme | ||||
| 2 | repair | participle · passive | the king | day | to this apartment | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient | |||
| 3 | seek | to-infinitive | the society of the queen | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent society=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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