Legends of the conquest of Spain, Don Roderick Receives an Extraordinary Embassy., sentence 17
Don Roderick remained for some time lost in thought after the departure of the men: he then dismissed all his court, excepting the venerable Urbino, at that time archbishop of Toledo.
Who acts: Don, men · What happens: remain, lose, dismiss, except, depart · To what, where: time, thought, court, venerable Urbino, time archbishop
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 (Don, 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 | Don | Don | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 remained | nsubj |
| 2 | Roderick | Roderick | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Don | flat |
| 3 | remained | remain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 time | case |
| 5 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 6 time | det |
| 6 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 remained | obl |
| 7 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 time | acl |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 thought | case |
| 9 | thought | thought | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 lost | obl |
| 10 | after | after | ADP | _ | 12 departure | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 departure | det |
| 12 | departure | departure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 lost | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 men | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 men | det |
| 15 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 departure | nmod |
| 16 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 19 dismissed | punct |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 dismissed | nsubj |
| 18 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 19 dismissed | advmod |
| 19 | dismissed | dismiss | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 remained | conj |
| 20 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 22 court | det:predet |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 court | nmod:poss |
| 22 | court | court | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 dismissed | obj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 excepting | punct |
| 24 | excepting | except | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 19 dismissed | advcl |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 Urbino | det |
| 26 | venerable | venerable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 Urbino | amod |
| 27 | Urbino | Urbino | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 excepting | obj |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 archbishop | punct |
| 29 | at | at | ADP | _ | 32 archbishop | case |
| 30 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 32 archbishop | det |
| 31 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 archbishop | compound |
| 32 | archbishop | archbishop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 excepting | obl |
| 33 | of | of | ADP | _ | 34 Toledo | case |
| 34 | Toledo | Toledo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 archbishop | nmod |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 remained | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | remain | past | Don | time | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | lose | participle | some time not said here | thought | after the departure of the men | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V PP.eventuality S_ING»: agent=Agent in thought=Eventuality | |||
| 3 | dismiss | past | Don | Don's court | then | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent court=Theme | |||
| 4 | except | gerund | Don not said here | the venerable Urbino | that time archbishop of Toledo | tree rules | |||
| 5 | depart | the men | nom departure «act intransitive»: of=agent |
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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