Legends of the conquest of Spain, Chapter XIV., sentence 26
The Bishop Oppas sat with his eyes fixed upon the ground, and shadowed by his overhanging brow.
Who acts: Bishop · What happens: sit, fix, shadow, overhang · To what, where: eyes
This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Chapter XIV.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Bishop), 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 | 2 Bishop | det |
| 2 | Bishop | Bishop | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 sat | nsubj |
| 3 | Oppas | Oppas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Bishop | flat |
| 4 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 eyes | case |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 7 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 sat | obl |
| 8 | fixed | fix | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 eyes | acl |
| 9 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 11 ground | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 ground | det |
| 11 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 fixed | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 shadowed | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 shadowed | cc |
| 14 | shadowed | shadow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 sat | conj |
| 15 | by | by | ADP | _ | 18 brow | case |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 brow | nmod:poss |
| 17 | overhanging | overhang | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 18 brow | amod |
| 18 | brow | brow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 shadowed | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 sat | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit | past | the Bishop | with Bishop's eyes | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | fix | participle | Bishop's eyes not said here | upon the ground | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 3 | shadow | participle | the Bishop not said here | by Bishop's overhanging brow | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent by brow=Trajectory | ||||
| 4 | overhang | gerund | vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme |
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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