Legends of the conquest of Spain, The Story of Florinda., sentence 6
The charm of perfect privacy also reigned throughout the place; for the garden walls were high, and numerous guards kept watch without to protect it from all intrusion.
Who acts: charm, garden walls, numerous guards · What happens: reign, be, keep, protect · To what, where: watch
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 (charm, garden walls, numerous guards), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 charm | det |
| 2 | charm | charm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 reigned | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 privacy | case |
| 4 | perfect | perfect | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 privacy | amod |
| 5 | privacy | privacy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 charm | nmod |
| 6 | also | also | ADV | _ | 7 reigned | advmod |
| 7 | reigned | reign | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | throughout | throughout | ADP | _ | 10 place | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 place | det |
| 10 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 reigned | obl |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 high | punct |
| 12 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 17 high | mark |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 walls | det |
| 14 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 walls | compound |
| 15 | walls | wall | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 high | nsubj |
| 16 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 high | cop |
| 17 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 reigned | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 guards | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 guards | cc |
| 20 | numerous | numerous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 guards | amod |
| 21 | guards | guard | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 high | obl |
| 22 | kept | keep | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 guards | acl |
| 23 | watch | watch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 kept | obj |
| 24 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 26 protect | mark |
| 25 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 protect | mark |
| 26 | protect | protect | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 kept | advcl |
| 27 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 protect | obj |
| 28 | from | from | ADP | _ | 30 intrusion | case |
| 29 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 30 intrusion | det |
| 30 | intrusion | intrusion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 protect | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 reigned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reign | past | the charm of perfect privacy | throughout the place | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | past | the garden walls | numerous guards obl; high property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | keep | participle | numerous guards not said here | watch | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent watch=Theme | ||||
| 4 | protect | to-infinitive | numerous guards not said here | watch | from all intrusion | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Beneficiary from intrusion=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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