Legends of the conquest of Spain, Last Day of the Battle., sentence 37

It was glorious to behold the old Gothic valour shining forth in this hour of fearful trial.

Who acts: It, old Gothic valour · What happens: be, behold, shine · To what, where: old Gothic valour

This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Last Day of the Battle.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (It, old Gothic valour), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 glorious	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 glorious	cop
3	glorious	glorious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 behold	mark
5	behold	behold	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 glorious	xcomp
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 valour	det
7	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 valour	amod
8	Gothic	gothic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 valour	amod
9	valour	valour	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 behold	obj
10	shining	shine	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 valour	acl
11	forth	forth	ADV	_	10 shining	advmod
12	in	in	ADP	_	14 hour	case
13	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	14 hour	det
14	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 shining	obl
15	of	of	ADP	_	17 trial	case
16	fearful	fearful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 trial	amod
17	trial	trial	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 hour	nmod
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 glorious	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	It			glorious property	tree rules
2	behold	to-infinitive		the old Gothic valour			vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer valour=Stimulus
3	shine	gerund	the old Gothic valour not said here		hour	forth property	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: 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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🌲 Legends of the conquest of Spain, Last Day of the Battle., sentence 37

The tree

Pragmatics

Legends of the conquest of Spain, Last Day of the Battle., sentence 37