Legends of the conquest of Spain, Chapter VIII., sentence 52
Being now in his own domains, surrounded by his relatives and friends, Count Julian went on to complete his web of treason.
Who acts: own domains, Julian · What happens: be, surround, count, go on, complete · To what, where: own domains, web
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 (own domains, 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 | Being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 domains | cop |
| 2 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 domains | advmod |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 domains | case |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 domains | nmod:poss |
| 5 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 domains | amod |
| 6 | domains | domain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 Count | nsubj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 surrounded | punct |
| 8 | surrounded | surround | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 domains | acl |
| 9 | by | by | ADP | _ | 11 relatives | case |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 relatives | nmod:poss |
| 11 | relatives | relative | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 surrounded | obl:agent |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 friends | cc |
| 13 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 relatives | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 domains | punct |
| 15 | Count | count | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | Julian | Julian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 went | nsubj |
| 17 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 Count | ccomp |
| 18 | on | on | ADV | _ | 17 went | advmod |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 complete | mark |
| 20 | complete | complete | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 went | advcl |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 web | nmod:poss |
| 22 | web | web | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 complete | obj |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 treason | case |
| 24 | treason | treason | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 web | nmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 Count | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | gerund | satisfied's own domains | now | satisfied nmod:poss | tree rules | |||
| 2 | surround | participle | satisfied's own domains not said here | satisfied's relatives and friends obl:agent | vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | count | infinitive | satisfied's own domains | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: agent=Agent clause=Attribute | |||||
| 4 | go on | past | Julian | vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | complete | to-infinitive | Julian not said here | satisfied's web of treason | vn complete-55.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent web=Eventuality |
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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