Legends of the conquest of Spain, The Story of Florinda., sentence 73
In the first paroxysm of her grief she wrote a letter to her father, blotted with her tears, and almost incoherent from her agitation.
Who acts: name · What happens: write, blot · To what, where: letter, first paroxysm, father
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 (name), 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 | ADP | _ | 4 paroxysm | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 paroxysm | det |
| 3 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 4 paroxysm | amod |
| 4 | paroxysm | paroxysm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 wrote | obl |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 grief | case |
| 6 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 grief | nmod:poss |
| 7 | grief | grief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 paroxysm | nmod |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 wrote | nsubj |
| 9 | wrote | write | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 letter | det |
| 11 | letter | letter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 wrote | obj |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 father | case |
| 13 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 father | nmod:poss |
| 14 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 letter | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 blotted | punct |
| 16 | blotted | blot | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 father | acl |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 19 tears | case |
| 18 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 tears | nmod:poss |
| 19 | tears | tear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 blotted | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 incoherent | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 incoherent | cc |
| 22 | almost | almost | ADV | _ | 23 incoherent | advmod |
| 23 | incoherent | incoherent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 wrote | conj |
| 24 | from | from | ADP | _ | 26 agitation | case |
| 25 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 agitation | nmod:poss |
| 26 | agitation | agitation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 incoherent | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 wrote | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | write | past | name | a letter | the first paroxysm of name's grief | to name's father | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent letter=Theme in paroxysm=Destination | ||
| 2 | blot | participle | name's father not said here | with name's tears | vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with tear=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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