Legends of the conquest of Spain, Terror of the Country.—roderick Rouses Himself to Arms., sentence 28
The Gothic nobles appeared in burnished armour, curiously inlaid, and adorned with chains and jewels of gold, and ornaments of precious stones, and silken scarfs, and surcoats of brocade, or velvet richly embroidered; betraying the luxury and ostentation with which they had declined from the iron hardihood of their warlike sires.
Who acts: Gothic nobles, noble · What happens: appear, burnish, inlay, adorn, velvet, embroider · To what, where: ornaments, burnished armour, luxury, iron hardihood
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 (Gothic nobles, noble), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 nobles | det |
| 2 | Gothic | gothic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 nobles | amod |
| 3 | nobles | noble | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 appeared | nsubj |
| 4 | appeared | appear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 armour | case |
| 6 | burnished | burnish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 armour | amod |
| 7 | armour | armour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 appeared | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 inlaid | punct |
| 9 | curiously | curiously | ADV | _ | 10 inlaid | advmod |
| 10 | inlaid | inlay | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 appeared | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 adorned | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 adorned | cc |
| 13 | adorned | adorn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 inlaid | conj |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 chains | case |
| 15 | chains | chain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 adorned | obl |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 jewels | cc |
| 17 | jewels | jewel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 chains | conj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 gold | case |
| 19 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 jewels | nmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 ornaments | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 ornaments | cc |
| 22 | ornaments | ornament | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 appeared | obl |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 stones | case |
| 24 | precious | precious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 stones | amod |
| 25 | stones | stone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 ornaments | nmod |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 scarfs | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 scarfs | cc |
| 28 | silken | silken | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 scarfs | amod |
| 29 | scarfs | scarf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 appeared | obl |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 surcoats | punct |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 surcoats | cc |
| 32 | surcoats | surcoat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 scarfs | conj |
| 33 | of | of | ADP | _ | 34 brocade | case |
| 34 | brocade | brocade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 surcoats | nmod |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 velvet | punct |
| 36 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 37 velvet | cc |
| 37 | velvet | velvet | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 appeared | conj |
| 38 | richly | richly | ADV | _ | 39 embroidered | advmod |
| 39 | embroidered | embroider | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 37 velvet | advcl |
| 40 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 41 betraying | punct |
| 41 | betraying | betray | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 appeared | advcl |
| 42 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 luxury | det |
| 43 | luxury | luxury | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 betraying | obj |
| 44 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 45 ostentation | cc |
| 45 | ostentation | ostentation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 luxury | conj |
| 46 | with | with | ADP | _ | 47 which | case |
| 47 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 50 declined | obl |
| 48 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 50 declined | nsubj |
| 49 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 50 declined | aux |
| 50 | declined | decline | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 45 ostentation | acl:relcl |
| 51 | from | from | ADP | _ | 54 hardihood | case |
| 52 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 54 hardihood | det |
| 53 | iron | iron | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 54 hardihood | amod |
| 54 | hardihood | hardihood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 50 declined | obl |
| 55 | of | of | ADP | _ | 58 sires | case |
| 56 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 58 sires | nmod:poss |
| 57 | warlike | warlike | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 58 sires | amod |
| 58 | sires | sire | NOUN | Number=Plur | 54 hardihood | nmod |
| 59 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 appeared | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | appear | past | the Gothic nobles | ornaments of precious stones | burnished armour | silken scarfs and surcoats of brocade obl | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in armour=Location | ||
| 2 | burnish | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | inlay | participle | the Gothic nobles not said here | curiously property | vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | adorn | participle | the Gothic nobles not said here | with chains and jewels of gold | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with chain=Theme | ||||
| 5 | velvet | infinitive | the Gothic nobles not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | embroider | participle | the Gothic nobles not said here | richly property | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 7 | betray | gerund | the Gothic nobles not said here | the luxury and ostentation | tree rules | ||||
| 8 | decline | past · perfect | noble | the iron hardihood of noble's warlike sires | with ostentation | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
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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