Legends of the conquest of Spain, Chapter XI., sentence 36

I have heard the Emir Bahamet, and other ancient men, describe the prophet, whom they had seen many times while on earth, and such was his form and lineament.

Who acts: I, other ancient men, men · What happens: hear, describe, see, be · To what, where: Emir Bahamet, prophet, such form

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 (I, other ancient men, 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 heard	nsubj
2	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 heard	aux
3	heard	hear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Bahamet	det
5	Emir	Emir	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 Bahamet	compound
6	Bahamet	Bahamet	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 heard	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 describe	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 describe	cc
9	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 men	amod
10	ancient	ancient	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 men	amod
11	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 describe	nsubj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 men	punct
13	describe	describe	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 heard	parataxis
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 prophet	det
15	prophet	prophet	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 describe	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 seen	punct
17	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	20 seen	obj
18	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 seen	nsubj
19	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 seen	aux
20	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	13 describe	advcl
21	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 times	amod
22	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 seen	obl:unmarked
23	while	while	SCONJ	_	25 earth	mark
24	on	on	ADP	_	25 earth	case
25	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 seen	advcl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 form	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 form	cc
28	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 form	amod
29	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 form	cop
30	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 form	nmod:poss
31	form	form	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 heard	parataxis
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 lineament	cc
33	lineament	lineament	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 form	conj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 heard	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	hear	present · perfect	I	the Emir Bahamet			vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer bahamet=Stimulus
2	describe	infinitive	other ancient men	the prophet			vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent prophet=Theme
3	see	past · perfect	men = man		time	whom obj; earth advcl	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer whom=Stimulus
4	is a	past		Scarce's such form and lineament		Scarce nmod:poss; lineament conj	tree rules

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 36

The tree

Pragmatics

Legends of the conquest of Spain, Chapter XI., sentence 36