Legends of the conquest of Spain, Terror of the Country.—roderick Rouses Himself to Arms., sentence 18

Roderick heard all these tidings with an undaunted aspect; nor did he ever again betray sign of consternation: but the anxiety of his soul was evident in his warlike preparations.

Who acts: Roderick, anxiety · What happens: hear, do, betray, be, sign, prepare · To what, where: tidings, sign, warlike preparations, consternation

This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Terror of the Country.—roderick Rouses Himself to Arms.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Roderick, anxiety), 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	Roderick	Roderick	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 heard	nsubj
2	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 tidings	det:predet
4	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	5 tidings	det
5	tidings	tiding	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 heard	obj
6	with	with	ADP	_	9 aspect	case
7	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 aspect	det
8	undaunted	undaunted	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 aspect	amod
9	aspect	aspect	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 tidings	nmod
10	;	;	PUNCT	_	12 did	punct
11	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	12 did	cc
12	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 heard	conj
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 betray	nsubj
14	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	15 again	advmod
15	again	again	ADV	_	16 betray	advmod
16	betray	betray	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 did	ccomp
17	sign	sign	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 betray	obj
18	of	of	ADP	_	19 consternation	case
19	consternation	consternation	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 sign	nmod
20	:	:	PUNCT	_	28 evident	punct
21	but	but	CCONJ	_	28 evident	cc
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 anxiety	det
23	anxiety	anxiety	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 evident	nsubj
24	of	of	ADP	_	26 soul	case
25	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 soul	nmod:poss
26	soul	soul	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 anxiety	nmod
27	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 evident	cop
28	evident	evident	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 heard	parataxis
29	in	in	ADP	_	32 preparations	case
30	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 preparations	nmod:poss
31	warlike	warlike	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 preparations	amod
32	preparations	preparation	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 evident	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 heard	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hear	past	Roderick	all tidings			with a undaunted aspect	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer tiding=Stimulus
2	do	past	Roderick not said here					tree rules
3	betray	present	Roderick	sign of consternation		again; ever		tree rules
4	is	past	the anxiety of Roderick's soul		Roderick's warlike preparations		evident property	tree rules
5	sign			consternation				nom sign «communication transitive»: of=patient
6	prepare		Roderick					nom preparation «act transitive»: 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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Legends of the conquest of Spain, Terror of the Country.—roderick Rouses Himself to Arms., sentence 18