Legends of the conquest of Spain, Chapter XI., sentence 31
Taric marked their despondency, but said nothing.
Who acts: Taric, Arabs · What happens: mark, say, despond · To what, where: despondency, nothing · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Taric, Arabs), 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 marked | nsubj |
| 2 | marked | mark | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 despondency | nmod:poss |
| 4 | despondency | despondency | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 marked | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
| 6 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 7 said | cc |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 marked | conj |
| 8 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 7 said | obj |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 marked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mark | past | Taric | Arabs's despondency | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent despondency=Destination | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Taric not said here | nothing | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent nothing=Topic | ||||
| 3 | despond | Arabs = arab | nom despondency «feeling intransitive»: poss=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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