Legends of the conquest of Spain, Chapter VIII., sentence 58
Then gathering around him those who were of his blood and kindred, he revealed the outrage that had been offered to their house.
Who acts: JULIAN · What happens: gather, be, reveal, offer · To what, where: those, outrage, house
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 (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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 2 gathering | advmod |
| 2 | gathering | gather | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 revealed | advcl |
| 3 | around | around | ADP | _ | 4 him | case |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 gathering | obl |
| 5 | those | that | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 2 gathering | obj |
| 6 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 blood | nsubj |
| 7 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 blood | cop |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 blood | case |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 blood | nmod:poss |
| 10 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 those | acl:relcl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 kindred | cc |
| 12 | kindred | kindred | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 blood | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 gathering | punct |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 revealed | nsubj |
| 15 | revealed | reveal | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 outrage | det |
| 17 | outrage | outrage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 revealed | obj |
| 18 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 offered | nsubj:pass |
| 19 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 offered | aux |
| 20 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 21 offered | aux:pass |
| 21 | offered | offer | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 outrage | acl:relcl |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 house | case |
| 23 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 house | nmod:poss |
| 24 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 offered | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 revealed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | gather | gerund | JULIAN not said here | those | then | around JULIAN | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Theme | ||
| 2 | is | past | of JULIAN's blood; who nsubj; JULIAN nmod:poss | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | be | tree rules | |||||||
| 4 | reveal | past | JULIAN | the outrage | vn confess-37.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent outrage=Topic | ||||
| 5 | offer | past · perfect · passive | the outrage | to appellation's house goal | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: subject=Theme to house=Goal |
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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