Legends of the conquest of Spain, Chapter XI., sentence 6

They were without discipline or animation; and their horses, like themselves, pampered by slothful peace, were little fitted to bear the heat, the dust, and toil, of long campaigns.

Who acts: nobles, horses · What happens: be, pamper, fit, bear · To what, where: horses, toil, heat

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 (nobles, horses), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 discipline	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 discipline	cop
3	without	without	ADP	_	4 discipline	case
4	discipline	discipline	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	or	or	CCONJ	_	6 animation	cc
6	animation	animation	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 discipline	conj
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	10 horses	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 horses	cc
9	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 horses	nmod:poss
10	horses	horse	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 discipline	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 themselves	punct
12	like	like	ADP	_	13 themselves	case
13	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	10 horses	appos
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 pampered	punct
15	pampered	pamper	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 horses	acl
16	by	by	ADP	_	18 peace	case
17	slothful	slothful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 peace	amod
18	peace	peace	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 pampered	obl:agent
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 fitted	punct
20	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 fitted	aux:pass
21	little	little	ADV	Degree=Pos	22 fitted	advmod
22	fitted	fit	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 horses	acl
23	to	to	PART	_	24 bear	mark
24	bear	bear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 fitted	xcomp
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 heat	det
26	heat	heat	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 bear	obj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 dust	punct
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 dust	det
29	dust	dust	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 heat	conj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 toil	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 toil	cc
32	toil	toil	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 fitted	obl
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 campaigns	punct
34	of	of	ADP	_	36 campaigns	case
35	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 campaigns	amod
36	campaigns	campaign	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 fitted	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 discipline	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	nobles = noble		without discipline or animation and nobles's horses; animation conj; nobles's horses conj	tree rules
2	pamper	participle		nobles's horses not said here	slothful peace obl:agent	tree rules
3	fit	past · passive	nobles's horses not said here	toil	of long campaigns; little property	tree rules
4	bear	to-infinitive	nobles's horses not said here	the heat and the dust		vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heat=Patient

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 6

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Legends of the conquest of Spain, Chapter XI., sentence 6