Legends of the conquest of Spain, Chapter IX., sentence 9
Still the roving, restless, and predatory habits of the genuine son of Ishmael prevailed, in defiance of every change of clime or situation.
Who acts: you, predatory habits, clime · What happens: still, prevail, change · To what, where: roving, defiance
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 (you, predatory habits, clime), 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 | Still | still | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 roving | det |
| 3 | roving | roving | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Still | obj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 restless | punct |
| 5 | restless | restless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 roving | amod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 prevailed | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 prevailed | cc |
| 8 | predatory | predatory | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 habits | amod |
| 9 | habits | habit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 prevailed | nsubj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 son | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 son | det |
| 12 | genuine | genuine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 son | amod |
| 13 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 habits | nmod |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 Ishmael | case |
| 15 | Ishmael | Ishmael | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 son | nmod |
| 16 | prevailed | prevail | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Still | parataxis |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 defiance | punct |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 defiance | case |
| 19 | defiance | defiance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 prevailed | obj |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 change | case |
| 21 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 22 change | det |
| 22 | change | change | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 defiance | nmod |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 clime | case |
| 24 | clime | clime | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 change | nmod |
| 25 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 26 situation | cc |
| 26 | situation | situation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 change | conj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Still | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | still | imperative | you not said here | the roving | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent roving=Patient | ||||
| 2 | prevail | past | predatory habits of the genuine son of Ishmael | defiance of every change of clime or situation | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | change | clime | nom change «event 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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