Legends of the conquest of Spain, Opening, sentence 18
The Spaniards, in all ages, have been of swelling and braggart spirit, soaring in thought, pompous in word, and valiant, though vainglorious, in deed.
Who acts: Spaniards, swelling spirit · What happens: be, soar
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 (Spaniards, swelling spirit), 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 Spaniards | det |
| 2 | Spaniards | Spaniard | PROPN | Number=Plur | 14 spirit | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 ages | punct |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 ages | case |
| 5 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 6 ages | det |
| 6 | ages | age | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 Spaniards | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Spaniards | punct |
| 8 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 spirit | aux |
| 9 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 14 spirit | cop |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 spirit | case |
| 11 | swelling | swelling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 spirit | compound |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 braggart | cc |
| 13 | braggart | braggart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 swelling | conj |
| 14 | spirit | spirit | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 soaring | punct |
| 16 | soaring | soar | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 14 spirit | acl |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 thought | case |
| 18 | thought | thought | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 soaring | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 pompous | punct |
| 20 | pompous | pompous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 thought | amod |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 word | case |
| 22 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 pompous | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 valiant | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 valiant | cc |
| 25 | valiant | valiant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 spirit | appos |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 vainglorious | punct |
| 27 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 28 vainglorious | mark |
| 28 | vainglorious | vainglorious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 valiant | conj |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 deed | punct |
| 30 | in | in | ADP | _ | 31 deed | case |
| 31 | deed | deed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 valiant | conj |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 spirit | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present · perfect | the Spaniards in all ages | of swelling spirit | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | soar | gerund | swelling spirit not said here | in thought | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in thought=Attribute |
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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