Legends of the conquest of Spain, Chapter XI., sentence 21
The traitor knight was stung with rage at these words, for truth rendered them piercing to the heart.
Who acts: truth · What happens: sting, render, pierce · To what, where: traitor knight, words
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 (truth), 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 knight | det |
| 2 | traitor | traitor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 knight | compound |
| 3 | knight | knight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 stung | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 stung | aux:pass |
| 5 | stung | sting | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 rage | case |
| 7 | rage | rage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 stung | obl |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 10 words | case |
| 9 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 10 words | det |
| 10 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 stung | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 rendered | punct |
| 12 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 14 rendered | mark |
| 13 | truth | truth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 rendered | nsubj |
| 14 | rendered | render | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 stung | conj |
| 15 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 rendered | obj |
| 16 | piercing | pierce | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 rendered | advcl |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 heart | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 heart | det |
| 19 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 piercing | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 stung | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sting | past · passive | the traitor knight | this words | with rage | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Experiencer with rage=Instrument | |||
| 2 | render | past | truth | words = word | vn give-13.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | ||||
| 3 | pierce | gerund | truth not said here | to the heart | vn poke-19-1 «NP V NP»: agent=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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