Legends of the conquest of Spain, The Story of Florinda., sentence 3
To gratify his queen, Don Roderick had built for her rural recreation a palace without the walls of Toledo, on the banks of the Tagus.
Who acts: Don · What happens: gratify, build, recreate · To what, where: queen, Don
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 (Don), 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 | To | to | PART | _ | 2 gratify | mark |
| 2 | gratify | gratify | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 built | advcl |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 queen | nmod:poss |
| 4 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 gratify | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 gratify | punct |
| 6 | Don | Don | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 built | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | Roderick | Roderick | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Don | flat |
| 8 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 built | aux |
| 9 | built | build | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 recreation | case |
| 11 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 recreation | nmod:poss |
| 12 | rural | rural | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 recreation | amod |
| 13 | recreation | recreation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 built | obl |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 palace | det |
| 15 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 built | obj |
| 16 | without | without | ADP | _ | 18 walls | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 walls | det |
| 18 | walls | wall | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 built | obl |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 Toledo | case |
| 20 | Toledo | Toledo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 walls | nmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 banks | punct |
| 22 | on | on | ADP | _ | 24 banks | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 banks | det |
| 24 | banks | bank | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 built | conj |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 Tagus | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 Tagus | det |
| 27 | Tagus | Tagus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 banks | nmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 built | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | gratify | to-infinitive | person's queen | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus queen=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | build | past · perfect · passive | Don | for Don's rural recreation; without the walls of Toledo; a palace obj; the banks of the Tagus conj | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP NP PP.asset»: subject=Beneficiary palace=Product for recreation=Asset | ||||
| 3 | recreate | Don | nom recreation «act intransitive»: poss=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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