Legends of the conquest of Spain, The Story of Florinda., sentence 79
When Florinda had written these lines, she summoned a youthful esquire, who had been a page in the service of her father.
Who acts: line, youthful esquire · What happens: write, summon, be, service · To what, where: Florinda, youthful esquire, page, service, 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 (line, youthful esquire), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 written | advmod |
| 2 | Florinda | Florinda | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 written | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 written | aux |
| 4 | written | write | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 summoned | advcl |
| 5 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 6 lines | det |
| 6 | lines | line | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 written | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 written | punct |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 summoned | nsubj |
| 9 | summoned | summon | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 esquire | det |
| 11 | youthful | youthful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 esquire | amod |
| 12 | esquire | esquire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 summoned | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 page | punct |
| 14 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 page | nsubj |
| 15 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 page | aux |
| 16 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 18 page | cop |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 page | det |
| 18 | page | page | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 esquire | appos |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 service | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 service | det |
| 21 | service | service | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 page | nmod |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 father | case |
| 23 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 father | nmod:poss |
| 24 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 service | nmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 summoned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | write | past · perfect · passive | Florinda | this lines obj | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient line=Topic | ||||
| 2 | summon | past | line | a youthful esquire | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent esquire=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | is a | past · perfect | a youthful esquire | a page | the service of line's father | tree rules | |||
| 4 | service | line's father | nom service «act transitive»: of=patient |
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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