Legends of the conquest of Spain, Battle of Calpe.—fate of Ataulpho., sentence 24
He dealt his blows about him with a powerful arm and with malignant fury, for nothing is more deadly than the hatred of an apostate.
Who acts: Theodomir, nothing · What happens: deal, be, blow · To what, where: blows
This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Battle of Calpe.—fate of Ataulpho.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Theodomir, nothing), 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 | 2 dealt | nsubj |
| 2 | dealt | deal | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 blows | nmod:poss |
| 4 | blows | blow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 dealt | obj |
| 5 | about | about | ADP | _ | 6 him | case |
| 6 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 dealt | obl |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 arm | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 arm | det |
| 9 | powerful | powerful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 arm | amod |
| 10 | arm | arm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 dealt | obl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 fury | cc |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 fury | case |
| 13 | malignant | malignant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 fury | amod |
| 14 | fury | fury | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 arm | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 deadly | punct |
| 16 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 20 deadly | mark |
| 17 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 20 deadly | nsubj |
| 18 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 deadly | cop |
| 19 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 20 deadly | advmod |
| 20 | deadly | deadly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 dealt | conj |
| 21 | than | than | ADP | _ | 23 hatred | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 hatred | det |
| 23 | hatred | hatred | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 deadly | obl |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 apostate | case |
| 25 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 apostate | det |
| 26 | apostate | apostate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 hatred | nmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 dealt | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | deal | past | Theodomir | Theodomir's blows | about Taric; with a powerful arm and malignant fury | vn give-13.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent blow=Theme | |||
| 2 | is | present | nothing | than the hatred of a apostate; deadly property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | blow | Theodomir | nom blow «act 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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