Legends of the conquest of Spain, Don Roderick Receives an Extraordinary Embassy., sentence 27
The venerable archbishop still continued to remonstrate, but Don Roderick heeded not his counsel, for he was led on by his malignant star.
Who acts: venerable archbishop, Don, malignant star · What happens: continue, remonstrate, not heed, lead on · To what, where: counsel, 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 (venerable archbishop, Don, malignant star), 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 | 3 archbishop | det |
| 2 | venerable | venerable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 archbishop | amod |
| 3 | archbishop | archbishop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 continued | nsubj |
| 4 | still | still | ADV | _ | 5 continued | advmod |
| 5 | continued | continue | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 remonstrate | mark |
| 7 | remonstrate | remonstrate | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 continued | xcomp |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 heeded | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 heeded | cc |
| 10 | Don | Don | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 heeded | nsubj |
| 11 | Roderick | Roderick | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Don | flat |
| 12 | heeded | heed | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 continued | conj |
| 13 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 heeded | advmod |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 counsel | nmod:poss |
| 15 | counsel | counsel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 heeded | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 led | punct |
| 17 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 20 led | mark |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 led | nsubj |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 led | aux:pass |
| 20 | led | lead | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 heeded | conj |
| 21 | on | on | ADP | _ | 20 led | compound:prt |
| 22 | by | by | ADP | _ | 25 star | case |
| 23 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 star | nmod:poss |
| 24 | malignant | malignant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 star | amod |
| 25 | star | star | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 led | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 continued | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | continue | past | the venerable archbishop | still | vn continue-55.3 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | remonstrate | to-infinitive | the venerable archbishop not said here | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | not heed | past | Don | Don's counsel | vn abide_by-93.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent counsel=Theme | ||||
| 4 | lead on | past · passive | Don's malignant star | archbishop | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=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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