Legends of the conquest of Spain, Letter of Muza to the Caliph.—second Expedition of Taric El Tuerto., sentence 32
Taric listened to the old beldame with grave attention; and, when she had concluded, he laid bare his shoulder, and lo! there was the mole as it had been described; his right arm, also, was, in verity, found to exceed the other in length, though not to the degree that had been mentioned.
Who acts: Taric, female, mole, verity · What happens: listen, conclude, lay, bear, be, describe · To what, where: right arm, shoulder, mole, verity, other, degree
This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Letter of Muza to the Caliph.—second Expedition of Taric El Tuerto.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Taric, female, mole, verity), 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 | Taric | Taric | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 listened | nsubj |
| 2 | listened | listen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 beldame | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 beldame | det |
| 5 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 beldame | amod |
| 6 | beldame | beldame | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 listened | obl |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 attention | case |
| 8 | grave | grave | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 attention | amod |
| 9 | attention | attention | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 beldame | nmod |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 laid | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 laid | cc |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 and | punct |
| 13 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 16 concluded | advmod |
| 14 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 concluded | nsubj |
| 15 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 concluded | aux |
| 16 | concluded | conclude | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 19 laid | advcl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 concluded | punct |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 laid | nsubj |
| 19 | laid | lay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 listened | conj |
| 20 | bare | bear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 laid | xcomp |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 shoulder | nmod:poss |
| 22 | shoulder | shoulder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 bare | obj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 was | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 was | cc |
| 25 | lo | lo | INTJ | _ | 28 was | discourse |
| 26 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 25 lo | punct |
| 27 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 28 was | expl |
| 28 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 listened | parataxis |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 mole | det |
| 30 | mole | mole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 was | nsubj |
| 31 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 35 described | mark |
| 32 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 described | nsubj:pass |
| 33 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 35 described | aux |
| 34 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 35 described | aux:pass |
| 35 | described | describe | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 28 was | advcl |
| 36 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 39 arm | punct |
| 37 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 39 arm | nmod:poss |
| 38 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 arm | amod |
| 39 | arm | arm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 listened | obl |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 46 verity | punct |
| 41 | also | also | ADV | _ | 46 verity | advmod |
| 42 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 also | punct |
| 43 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 46 verity | cop |
| 44 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 46 verity | punct |
| 45 | in | in | ADP | _ | 46 verity | case |
| 46 | verity | verity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 arm | appos |
| 47 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 48 found | punct |
| 48 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 46 verity | acl |
| 49 | to | to | PART | _ | 50 exceed | mark |
| 50 | exceed | exceed | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 48 found | xcomp |
| 51 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 52 other | det |
| 52 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 50 exceed | obj |
| 53 | in | in | ADP | _ | 54 length | case |
| 54 | length | length | NOUN | Number=Sing | 50 exceed | obl |
| 55 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 60 degree | punct |
| 56 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 60 degree | mark |
| 57 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 60 degree | advmod |
| 58 | to | to | ADP | _ | 60 degree | case |
| 59 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 60 degree | det |
| 60 | degree | degree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 50 exceed | parataxis |
| 61 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 64 mentioned | nsubj:pass |
| 62 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 64 mentioned | aux |
| 63 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 64 mentioned | aux:pass |
| 64 | mentioned | mention | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 60 degree | acl:relcl |
| 65 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 listened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | listen | past | Taric | Taric's right arm | to the old beldame with grave attention | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to beldame=Theme | |||
| 2 | conclude | past · perfect | female | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | lay | past | Taric | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | bear | infinitive | Taric not said here | Taric's shoulder | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shoulder=Patient | ||||
| 5 | be | past | the mole | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 6 | describe | past · perfect · passive | mole | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 7 | is | past | verity | tree rules | |||||
| 8 | find | participle | verity not said here | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 9 | exceed | to-infinitive | verity not said here | the other | in length; the degree parataxis | vn exceed-90 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot other=Theme in length=Attribute | |||
| 10 | mention speech: other | past · perfect · passive | the degree | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: subject=Topic |
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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