Legends of the conquest of Spain, Chapter VIII., sentence 1
COUNT JULIAN.—HIS FORTUNES IN AFRICA.—HE HEARS OF THE DISHONOUR OF HIS CHILD.—HIS CONDUCT THEREUPON.
Who acts: you, JULIAN · What happens: count, dishonour, conduct · To what, where: JULIAN, CHILD
This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Chapter VIII.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, JULIAN), 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 | COUNT | count | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | JULIAN | JULIAN | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 COUNT | obj |
| 3 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 COUNT | punct |
| 4 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 FORTUNES | punct |
| 5 | HIS | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 FORTUNES | nmod:poss |
| 6 | FORTUNES | fortune | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 COUNT | obl |
| 7 | IN | in | ADP | _ | 8 AFRICA | case |
| 8 | AFRICA | AFRICA | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 FORTUNES | nmod |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 COUNT | punct |
| 10 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 HEARS | punct |
| 11 | HE | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 HEARS | nsubj |
| 12 | HEARS | Hear | PROPN | Number=Plur | 1 COUNT | parataxis |
| 13 | OF | of | ADP | _ | 15 DISHONOUR | case |
| 14 | THE | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 DISHONOUR | det |
| 15 | DISHONOUR | dishonour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 HEARS | nmod |
| 16 | OF | of | ADP | _ | 18 CHILD | case |
| 17 | HIS | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 CHILD | nmod:poss |
| 18 | CHILD | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 DISHONOUR | nmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 COUNT | punct |
| 20 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 1 COUNT | punct |
| 21 | HIS | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 CONDUCT | nmod:poss |
| 22 | CONDUCT | conduct | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 COUNT | obj |
| 23 | THEREUPON | thereupon | ADV | _ | 1 COUNT | advmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 COUNT | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | count | imperative | you not said here | JULIAN | JULIAN's FORTUNES in AFRICA obl; HEARS JULIAN of the DISHONOUR of JULIAN's CHILD parataxis; JULIAN's CONDUCT obj; thereupon property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | dishonour | JULIAN's CHILD | nom dishonour «state transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 3 | conduct | JULIAN | nom conduct «act transitive»: poss=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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