Legends of the conquest of Spain, The Story of Florinda., sentence 36
Seating himself beside the fountain, he called Florinda to him to draw forth a thorn which had pierced his hand.
Who acts: heart · What happens: seat, call, draw, pierce · To what, where: heart, fountain, Florinda, thorn · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (heart), 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 | Seating | seat | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 called | advcl |
| 2 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 1 Seating | obj |
| 3 | beside | beside | ADP | _ | 5 fountain | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 fountain | det |
| 5 | fountain | fountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Seating | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Seating | punct |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 called | nsubj |
| 8 | called | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | Florinda | Florinda | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 called | obj |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 him | case |
| 11 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 called | obl |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 draw | mark |
| 13 | draw | draw | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 8 called | advcl |
| 14 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 13 draw | advmod |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 thorn | det |
| 16 | thorn | thorn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 draw | obj |
| 17 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 pierced | nsubj:pass |
| 18 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 pierced | aux |
| 19 | pierced | pierce | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 thorn | acl:relcl |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 hand | nmod:poss |
| 21 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 pierced | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 called | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seat | gerund | heart not said here | heart | the fountain | vn fit-54.3 «NP.location V NP»: agent=Location himself=Value | |||
| 2 | call | past | heart | Florinda | Florinda | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent florinda=Topic to he=Recipient | |||
| 3 | draw | to-infinitive | heart not said here | a thorn | forth property | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thorn=Theme | |||
| 4 | pierce | past · perfect · passive | a thorn | heart's hand obj | tree rules |
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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