Legends of the conquest of Spain, Chapter VIII., sentence 36
He regarded Count Julian, also, as a man able and experienced in warfare, and took his advice in all matters relating to the military affairs of the kingdom.
Who acts: treason, matters · What happens: count, take, relate · To what, where: Julian, advice, matters
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 (treason, matters), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 Count | nsubj |
| 2 | regarded | regard | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 Count | aux |
| 3 | Count | count | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | Julian | Julian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Count | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 also | punct |
| 6 | also | also | ADV | _ | 3 Count | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 able | punct |
| 8 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 11 able | mark |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 man | det |
| 10 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 able | nsubj |
| 11 | able | able | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Count | parataxis |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 experienced | cc |
| 13 | experienced | experienced | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 able | conj |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 warfare | case |
| 15 | warfare | warfare | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 experienced | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 took | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 took | cc |
| 18 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 Count | parataxis |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 advice | nmod:poss |
| 20 | advice | advice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 took | obj |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 matters | case |
| 22 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 23 matters | det |
| 23 | matters | matter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 took | obl |
| 24 | relating | relate | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 23 matters | acl |
| 25 | to | to | ADP | _ | 28 affairs | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 affairs | det |
| 27 | military | military | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 affairs | amod |
| 28 | affairs | affair | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 relating | obl |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 kingdom | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 kingdom | det |
| 31 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 affairs | nmod |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 Count | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | count | past | treason | Julian | vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent julian=Theme | ||||
| 2 | take | past | treason's advice | all matters | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent advice=Value in matter=Location | ||||
| 3 | relate | gerund | all matters not said here | to the military affairs of the kingdom | vn relate-86.2-2 «NP V PP.co-theme»: agent=Theme to affair=Co-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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