Legends of the conquest of Spain, Battle of Calpe.—fate of Ataulpho., sentence 42
Tenderos was powerful of frame and superior in the use of his weapons, but the curse of treason seemed to paralyse his arm.
Who acts: Tenderos, curse · What happens: be, seem, paralyse, use, curse · To what, where: use, arm, weapons, treason
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 (Tenderos, curse), 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 | Tenderos | Tenderos | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 powerful | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 powerful | cop |
| 3 | powerful | powerful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 frame | case |
| 5 | frame | frame | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 powerful | obl |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 superior | cc |
| 7 | superior | superior | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 powerful | conj |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 use | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 use | det |
| 10 | use | use | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 superior | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 weapons | case |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 weapons | nmod:poss |
| 13 | weapons | weapon | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 use | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 seemed | punct |
| 15 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 20 seemed | cc |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 curse | det |
| 17 | curse | curse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 seemed | nsubj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 treason | case |
| 19 | treason | treason | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 curse | nmod |
| 20 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 powerful | parataxis |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 paralyse | mark |
| 22 | paralyse | paralyse | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 seemed | xcomp |
| 23 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 arm | nmod:poss |
| 24 | arm | arm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 paralyse | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 powerful | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Tenderos | of frame; powerful property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | Tenderos not said here | the use of Tenderos's weapons | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | seem | past | the curse of treason | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | |||||
| 4 | paralyse | to-infinitive | the curse of treason not said here | Tenderos's arm | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | use | Tenderos's weapons | nom use «act transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 6 | curse | treason | nom curse «communication transitive»: of=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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