Legends of the conquest of Spain, Chapter XI., sentence 19
Theodomir glanced on them a look of defiance, but his eye rested on a renegado Christian, one of his own ancient comrades, and a relation of Count Julian.
Who acts: Theodomir · What happens: glance, rest · To what, where: look, eye, Christian
This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Chapter XI.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Theodomir), 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 | Theodomir | Theodomir | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 glanced | nsubj |
| 2 | glanced | glance | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | on | on | ADP | _ | 4 them | case |
| 4 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 glanced | obl |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 look | det |
| 6 | look | look | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 glanced | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 defiance | case |
| 8 | defiance | defiance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 look | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 one | punct |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 19 one | cc |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 eye | nmod:poss |
| 12 | eye | eye | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 one | nsubj |
| 13 | rested | rest | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 eye | acl |
| 14 | on | on | ADP | _ | 17 Christian | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 Christian | det |
| 16 | renegado | renegado | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 Christian | nmod:desc |
| 17 | Christian | Christian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 rested | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 one | punct |
| 19 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 glanced | conj |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 comrades | case |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 comrades | nmod:poss |
| 22 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 comrades | amod |
| 23 | ancient | ancient | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 comrades | amod |
| 24 | comrades | comrade | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 one | nmod |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 relation | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 relation | cc |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 relation | det |
| 28 | relation | relation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 glanced | obl |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 Julian | case |
| 30 | Count | Count | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 Julian | compound |
| 31 | Julian | Julian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 relation | nmod |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 glanced | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | glance | past | Theodomir | a look of defiance | on captains = captain; a relation of Count Julian obl; one Theodomir's eye of eye's own ancient comrades conj | tree rules | |||
| 2 | rest | participle | Theodomir's eye not said here | a Christian renegado | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on christian=Location |
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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