Legends of the conquest of Spain, The Story of Florinda., sentence 17
In passing through a small oratory, he was drawn by the sound of female voices to a casement overhung with myrtles and jessamines.
Who acts: sound · What happens: pass, draw, overhang · To what, where: small oratory, king, casement
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 (sound), 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 | SCONJ | _ | 2 passing | mark |
| 2 | passing | pass | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 drawn | advcl |
| 3 | through | through | ADP | _ | 6 oratory | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 oratory | det |
| 5 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 oratory | amod |
| 6 | oratory | oratory | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 passing | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 passing | punct |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 drawn | nsubj |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 drawn | aux:pass |
| 10 | drawn | draw | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 11 | by | by | ADP | _ | 13 sound | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 sound | det |
| 13 | sound | sound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 drawn | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 voices | case |
| 15 | female | female | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 voices | amod |
| 16 | voices | voice | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 sound | nmod |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 casement | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 casement | det |
| 19 | casement | casement | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 drawn | obl |
| 20 | overhung | overhang | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 casement | acl |
| 21 | with | with | ADP | _ | 22 myrtles | case |
| 22 | myrtles | myrtle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 overhung | obl |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 jessamines | cc |
| 24 | jessamines | jessamine | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 myrtles | conj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 drawn | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pass | gerund | the sound of female voices not said here | a small oratory | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme through oratory=Location | ||||
| 2 | draw | past · passive | the sound of female voices | king | a casement | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent subject=Theme to casement=Destination | |||
| 3 | overhang | participle | a casement not said here | with myrtles and jessamines | vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: 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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