Legends of the conquest of Spain, Chapter VIII., sentence 62
The count took advantage of the excitement of the moment to unfold his plan.
Who acts: count, speech · What happens: take, unfold, excite, plan · To what, where: advantage, plan, moment
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 (count, speech), 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 count | det |
| 2 | count | count | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 took | nsubj |
| 3 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | advantage | advantage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 took | obj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 excitement | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 excitement | det |
| 7 | excitement | excitement | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 took | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 moment | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 moment | det |
| 10 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 excitement | nmod |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 unfold | mark |
| 12 | unfold | unfold | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 took | advcl |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 plan | nmod:poss |
| 14 | plan | plan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 unfold | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | the count | advantage | of the excitement of the moment | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent advantage=Theme of excitement=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | unfold | to-infinitive | the count not said here | speech's plan | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent plan=Patient | ||||
| 3 | excite | the moment | nom excitement «feeling transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 4 | plan | speech | nom plan «cognition 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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