Legends of the conquest of Spain, Don Roderick Receives an Extraordinary Embassy., sentence 15
Having thus said, the ancient men made a profound reverence and departed from the presence chamber.
Who acts: ancient men · What happens: have, say, make, depart · To what, where: profound reverence, presence chamber · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Don Roderick Receives an Extraordinary Embassy.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (ancient men), 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 | Having | have | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 made | advcl |
| 2 | thus | thus | ADV | _ | 3 said | advmod |
| 3 | said | say | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 1 Having | acl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Having | punct |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 men | det |
| 6 | ancient | ancient | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 men | amod |
| 7 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 made | nsubj |
| 8 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 reverence | det |
| 10 | profound | profound | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 reverence | amod |
| 11 | reverence | reverence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 made | obj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 departed | cc |
| 13 | departed | depart | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 made | conj |
| 14 | from | from | ADP | _ | 17 chamber | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 chamber | det |
| 16 | presence | presence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 chamber | compound |
| 17 | chamber | chamber | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 departed | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | gerund | the ancient men not said here | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | participle | thus property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | make | past | the ancient men | a profound reverence | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent reverence=Product | ||||
| 4 | depart | participle | the ancient men not said here | the presence chamber | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from chamber=Initial_Location |
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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