Legends of the conquest of Spain, Chapter VIII., sentence 2
The course of our legendary narration now returns to notice the fortunes of Count Julian, after his departure from Toledo, to resume his government on the coast of Barbary.
Who acts: course, our, JULIAN · What happens: return, notice, resume, narrate, depart · To what, where: fortunes, government, coast, Toledo
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 (course, our, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 course | det |
| 2 | course | course | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 returns | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 narration | case |
| 4 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 narration | nmod:poss |
| 5 | legendary | legendary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 narration | amod |
| 6 | narration | narration | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 course | nmod |
| 7 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 8 returns | advmod |
| 8 | returns | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 notice | mark |
| 10 | notice | notice | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 returns | xcomp |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 fortunes | det |
| 12 | fortunes | fortune | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 notice | obj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 Julian | case |
| 14 | Count | Count | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 Julian | compound |
| 15 | Julian | Julian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 fortunes | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 departure | punct |
| 17 | after | after | ADP | _ | 19 departure | case |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 departure | nmod:poss |
| 19 | departure | departure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 notice | obl |
| 20 | from | from | ADP | _ | 21 Toledo | case |
| 21 | Toledo | Toledo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 departure | nmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 resume | punct |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 resume | mark |
| 24 | resume | resume | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 notice | conj |
| 25 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 government | nmod:poss |
| 26 | government | government | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 resume | obj |
| 27 | on | on | ADP | _ | 29 coast | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 coast | det |
| 29 | coast | coast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 resume | obl |
| 30 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 Barbary | case |
| 31 | Barbary | Barbary | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 coast | nmod |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 returns | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | return | present | the course of our legendary narration | now | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | notice | to-infinitive | the course of our legendary narration not said here | the fortunes of Count Julian | after JULIAN's departure from Toledo | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer fortune=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | resume | to-infinitive | the course of our legendary narration not said here | JULIAN's government | the coast of Barbary | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent government=Eventuality | |||
| 4 | narrate | our | nom narration «communication transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 5 | depart | JULIAN | Toledo | nom departure «act intransitive»: poss=agent from=place |
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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