Legends of the conquest of Spain, Chapter XI., sentence 40
He spake and vanished; I heard a strain of celestial melody, and my tent was filled with the odours of Arabia the Happy.”
Who acts: eye, I, celestial melody · What happens: vanish, hear, fill, strain · To what, where: strain, tent
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 (eye, I, celestial melody), 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 | 4 vanished | nsubj |
| 2 | spake | speak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 He | flat |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 vanished | cc |
| 4 | vanished | vanish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 7 heard | punct |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 heard | nsubj |
| 7 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 vanished | conj |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 strain | det |
| 9 | strain | strain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 heard | obj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 melody | case |
| 11 | celestial | celestial | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 melody | amod |
| 12 | melody | melody | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 strain | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 filled | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 filled | cc |
| 15 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 tent | nmod:poss |
| 16 | tent | tent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 filled | nsubj:pass |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 filled | aux:pass |
| 18 | filled | fill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 heard | conj |
| 19 | with | with | ADP | _ | 21 odours | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 odours | det |
| 21 | odours | odour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 filled | obl |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 Arabia | case |
| 23 | Arabia | Arabia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 odours | nmod |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 Happy | det |
| 25 | Happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 filled | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 vanished | punct |
| 27 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 vanished | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | vanish | past | eye | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | hear | past | I | a strain of celestial melody | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer strain=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | fill | past · passive | my tent | with the odours of Arabia; the Happy obl | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Patient with odour=Instrument | ||||
| 4 | strain | celestial melody | nom strain «phenomenon 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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