Legends of the conquest of Spain, Last Day of the Battle., sentence 49
It seemed as if madness had seized upon their friends and kinsmen, and that their worst enemies were among themselves.
Who acts: It, worst enemies · What happens: seem, seize, be · To what, where: madness
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, worst enemies), 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 | 2 seemed | nsubj |
| 2 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 7 seized | mark |
| 4 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 7 seized | mark |
| 5 | madness | madness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 seized | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 seized | aux |
| 7 | seized | seize | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 seemed | xcomp |
| 8 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 10 friends | case |
| 9 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 friends | nmod:poss |
| 10 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 seized | obl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 kinsmen | cc |
| 12 | kinsmen | kinsman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 friends | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 themselves | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 themselves | cc |
| 15 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 21 themselves | mark |
| 16 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 enemies | nmod:poss |
| 17 | worst | bad | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 18 enemies | amod |
| 18 | enemies | enemy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 themselves | nsubj |
| 19 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 themselves | cop |
| 20 | among | among | ADP | _ | 21 themselves | case |
| 21 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 2 seemed | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 seemed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seem | past | It | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | |||||
| 2 | seize a condition, not said to happen | past · perfect · passive | madness | upon Christians's friends and kinsmen | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is | past | Christians's worst enemies | among Christians = christian | tree rules |
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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