Legends of the conquest of Spain, Opening, sentence 10

When the nation had recovered in some degree from the effects of this astounding blow, or rather, had become accustomed to the tremendous reverse which it produced, and sage men sought to inquire and write the particulars, it was too late to ascertain them in their exact verity.

Who acts: nation, sage men, it · What happens: recover, become, accustom, produce, seek, inquire · To what, where: nation, degree, tremendous reverse, particulars, men, exact verity

This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Opening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (nation, sage men, it), 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	When	when	SCONJ	_	5 recovered	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 nation	det
3	nation	nation	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 recovered	nsubj:pass
4	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 recovered	aux
5	recovered	recover	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 degree	case
7	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	8 degree	det
8	degree	degree	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 recovered	obl
9	from	from	ADP	_	11 effects	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 effects	det
11	effects	effect	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 recovered	obl
12	of	of	ADP	_	15 blow	case
13	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	15 blow	det
14	astounding	astounding	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 blow	amod
15	blow	blow	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 effects	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 become	punct
17	or	or	CCONJ	_	21 become	cc
18	rather	rather	ADV	_	21 become	advmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 rather	punct
20	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 become	aux
21	become	become	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 recovered	conj
22	accustomed	accustom	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	21 become	xcomp
23	to	to	ADP	_	26 reverse	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 reverse	det
25	tremendous	tremendous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 reverse	amod
26	reverse	reverse	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 accustomed	obl
27	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	29 produced	obj
28	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 produced	nsubj
29	produced	produce	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 reverse	acl:relcl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 sought	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 sought	cc
32	sage	sage	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 men	amod
33	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 sought	nsubj
34	sought	seek	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 become	parataxis
35	to	to	PART	_	36 inquire	mark
36	inquire	inquire	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	34 sought	xcomp
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 write	cc
38	write	write	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	36 inquire	conj
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 particulars	det
40	particulars	particular	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 write	obj
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 late	punct
42	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	45 late	nsubj
43	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	45 late	cop
44	too	too	ADV	_	45 late	advmod
45	late	late	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 sought	parataxis
46	to	to	PART	_	47 ascertain	mark
47	ascertain	ascertain	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	45 late	csubj
48	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	47 ascertain	obj
49	in	in	ADP	_	52 verity	case
50	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	52 verity	nmod:poss
51	exact	exact	ADJ	Degree=Pos	52 verity	amod
52	verity	verity	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 ascertain	obl
53	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 recovered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	recover	past · perfect · passive		the nation	some degree	from the effects of this astounding blow	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: subject=Theme from effect=Source
2	become	past · perfect					tree rules
3	accustom	participle				to the tremendous reverse	tree rules
4	produce	past	nation	the tremendous reverse			vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Result
5	seek	past	sage men				tree rules
6	inquire speech: other not said to happen	to-infinitive	sage men not said here				vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	write	infinitive	sage men not said here	the particulars			vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent particular=Theme
8	is	past	it			late property	tree rules
9	ascertain	to-infinitive		men = man	men's exact verity		vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Topic
10	effect			this astounding blow			nom effect «phenomenon transitive»: of=patient

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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Legends of the conquest of Spain, Opening, sentence 10