Legends of the conquest of Spain, Chapter IX., sentence 25
The hot blood of this veteran Ishmaelite was in a ferment when he heard of a new country to invade, and vast regions to subdue; and he dreaded lest the cautious hesitation of Muza would permit the glorious prize to escape them.
Who acts: hot blood, delight, vast regions, cautious hesitation, Muza · What happens: be, hear, invade, subdue, dread, permit · To what, where: ferment, glorious prize, regions
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: who acts (hot blood, delight, vast regions, cautious hesitation), 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 | 3 blood | det |
| 2 | hot | hot | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 blood | amod |
| 3 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 ferment | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 veteran | case |
| 5 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 veteran | det |
| 6 | veteran | veteran | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 blood | nmod |
| 7 | Ishmaelite | Ishmaelite | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 veteran | appos |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 ferment | cop |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 ferment | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 ferment | det |
| 11 | ferment | ferment | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 12 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 14 heard | advmod |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 heard | nsubj |
| 14 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 ferment | acl:relcl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 country | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 country | det |
| 17 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 country | amod |
| 18 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 heard | obl |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 invade | mark |
| 20 | invade | invade | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 heard | advcl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 subdue | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 subdue | cc |
| 23 | vast | vast | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 regions | amod |
| 24 | regions | region | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 subdue | nsubj |
| 25 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 subdue | mark |
| 26 | subdue | subdue | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 heard | conj |
| 27 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 30 dreaded | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 dreaded | cc |
| 29 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 dreaded | nsubj |
| 30 | dreaded | dread | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 ferment | parataxis |
| 31 | lest | lest | SCONJ | _ | 38 permit | mark |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 hesitation | det |
| 33 | cautious | cautious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 hesitation | amod |
| 34 | hesitation | hesitation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 permit | nsubj |
| 35 | of | of | ADP | _ | 36 Muza | case |
| 36 | Muza | Muza | PROPN | Number=Sing | 34 hesitation | nmod |
| 37 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 38 permit | aux |
| 38 | permit | permit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 30 dreaded | ccomp |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 prize | det |
| 40 | glorious | glorious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 41 prize | amod |
| 41 | prize | prize | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 permit | obj |
| 42 | to | to | PART | _ | 43 escape | mark |
| 43 | escape | escape | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 38 permit | advcl |
| 44 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 43 escape | obj |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 ferment | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the hot blood of this veteran | a ferment | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | hear | past | delight | of a new country | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer of country=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | invade | to-infinitive | delight not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | subdue | to-infinitive | vast regions | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | dread | past | delight | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 6 | permit | would | the cautious hesitation of Muza | the glorious prize | vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prize=Theme | ||||
| 7 | escape | to-infinitive | the cautious hesitation of Muza not said here | regions = region | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme they=Initial_Location | ||||
| 8 | hesitate | Muza | nom hesitation «cognition intransitive»: of=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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