Legends of the conquest of Spain, Chapter IX., sentence 11
He was advanced in life, but of a noble presence, and concealed his age by tinging his hair and beard with henna.
What happens: advance, conceal, ting · To what, where: JULIAN, life, age, hair
This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Chapter IX.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 advanced | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 advanced | aux:pass |
| 3 | advanced | advance | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 life | case |
| 5 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 advanced | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 presence | punct |
| 7 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 presence | cc |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 presence | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 presence | det |
| 10 | noble | noble | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 presence | amod |
| 11 | presence | presence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 advanced | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 concealed | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 concealed | cc |
| 14 | concealed | conceal | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 advanced | conj |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 age | nmod:poss |
| 16 | age | age | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 concealed | obj |
| 17 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 18 tinging | mark |
| 18 | tinging | ting | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 concealed | advcl |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 hair | nmod:poss |
| 20 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 tinging | obj |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 beard | cc |
| 22 | beard | beard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 hair | conj |
| 23 | with | with | ADP | _ | 24 henna | case |
| 24 | henna | henna | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 tinging | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 advanced | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | advance | past · passive | JULIAN | life | of a noble presence | vn caused_calibratable_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient | |||
| 2 | conceal | past | JULIAN's age | vn concealment-16 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent age=Patient | |||||
| 3 | ting | gerund | JULIAN's hair and beard | with henna | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location hair=Theme |
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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