Legends of the conquest of Spain, Terror of the Country.—roderick Rouses Himself to Arms., sentence 36
He addressed them in words calculated to touch their hearts and animate their courage.
Who acts: king · What happens: address, calculate, touch, animate · To what, where: troops, words, hearts, courage
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 (king), 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 addressed | nsubj |
| 2 | addressed | address | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 addressed | obj |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 words | case |
| 5 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 addressed | obl |
| 6 | calculated | calculate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 words | acl |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 touch | mark |
| 8 | touch | touch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 calculated | xcomp |
| 9 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 hearts | nmod:poss |
| 10 | hearts | heart | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 touch | obj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 animate | cc |
| 12 | animate | animate | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 touch | conj |
| 13 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 courage | nmod:poss |
| 14 | courage | courage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 animate | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 addressed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | address | past | king | troops | words | vn illustrate-25.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Destination | |||
| 2 | calculate | participle | words not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | touch | to-infinitive | troops's hearts | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme heart=Co-Theme | |||||
| 4 | animate | present | troops's courage | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent courage=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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