Legends of the conquest of Spain, Chapter XI., sentence 35

He was taller by a palm than the ordinary race of men: his flowing beard was of a golden hue, and his eyes were so bright that they seemed to send forth flashes of fire.

Who acts: Scarce, flowing beard, eyes, men, fire · What happens: be, flow, seem, send, race, flash · To what, where: flashes

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 (Scarce, flowing beard, eyes, men), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 taller	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 taller	cop
3	taller	tall	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
4	by	by	ADP	_	6 palm	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 palm	det
6	palm	palm	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 taller	obl
7	than	than	ADP	_	10 race	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 race	det
9	ordinary	ordinary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 race	amod
10	race	race	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 taller	obl
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 men	case
12	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 race	nmod
13	:	:	PUNCT	_	21 hue	punct
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 beard	nmod:poss
15	flowing	flow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	16 beard	amod
16	beard	beard	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 hue	nsubj
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 hue	cop
18	of	of	ADP	_	21 hue	case
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 hue	det
20	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 hue	amod
21	hue	hue	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 taller	parataxis
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 bright	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 bright	cc
24	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 eyes	nmod:poss
25	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 bright	nsubj
26	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 bright	cop
27	so	so	ADV	_	28 bright	advmod
28	bright	bright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 hue	parataxis
29	that	that	SCONJ	_	31 seemed	mark
30	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 seemed	nsubj
31	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 bright	advcl
32	to	to	PART	_	33 send	mark
33	send	send	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 seemed	xcomp
34	forth	forth	ADV	_	33 send	advmod
35	flashes	flash	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 send	obj
36	of	of	ADP	_	37 fire	case
37	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 flashes	nmod
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 taller	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	Scarce		by a palm; than the ordinary race of men; tall property	tree rules
2	flow	gerund				vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	is	past	Scarce's flowing beard		of a golden hue	tree rules
4	is	past	Scarce's eyes		bright property	tree rules
5	seem	past	men = man			vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
6	send	to-infinitive	men = man not said here	flashes of fire	forth property	vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flash=Theme
7	race		men			nom race «event intransitive»: of=agent
8	flash		fire			nom flash «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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🌲 Legends of the conquest of Spain, Chapter XI., sentence 35

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Legends of the conquest of Spain, Chapter XI., sentence 35