Legends of the conquest of Spain, Last Day of the Battle., sentence 5
The heart of the king was heavy and oppressed; but he felt only for himself, says Antonio Agapida, he thought nothing of the perils impending over the thousands of devoted subjects in the camp below him; sleeping, as it were, on the margin of their graves.
Who acts: heart, king, Antonio · What happens: be, oppress, feel, say, think, impend · To what, where: nothing, thousands, margin · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (heart, king, Antonio), 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 heart | det |
| 2 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 heavy | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 king | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 king | det |
| 5 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 heart | nmod |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 heavy | cop |
| 7 | heavy | heavy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 oppressed | cc |
| 9 | oppressed | oppress | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 heavy | conj |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 felt | punct |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 13 felt | cc |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 felt | nsubj |
| 13 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 heavy | conj |
| 14 | only | only | ADV | _ | 16 himself | advmod |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 himself | case |
| 16 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 13 felt | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 says | punct |
| 18 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 felt | conj |
| 19 | Antonio | Antonio | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 says | nsubj |
| 20 | Agapida | Agapida | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 Antonio | flat |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 thought | punct |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 thought | nsubj |
| 23 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 says | parataxis |
| 24 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 23 thought | obj |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 perils | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 perils | det |
| 27 | perils | peril | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 nothing | nmod |
| 28 | impending | impend | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 24 nothing | acl |
| 29 | over | over | ADP | _ | 31 thousands | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 thousands | det |
| 31 | thousands | thousand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 impending | obl |
| 32 | of | of | ADP | _ | 34 subjects | case |
| 33 | devoted | devoted | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 subjects | amod |
| 34 | subjects | subject | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 thousands | nmod |
| 35 | in | in | ADP | _ | 37 camp | case |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 camp | det |
| 37 | camp | camp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 impending | obl |
| 38 | below | below | ADP | _ | 39 him | case |
| 39 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 camp | nmod |
| 40 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 41 sleeping | punct |
| 41 | sleeping | sleep | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 heavy | parataxis |
| 42 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 49 margin | punct |
| 43 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 49 margin | mark |
| 44 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 49 margin | nsubj |
| 45 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 49 margin | cop |
| 46 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 49 margin | punct |
| 47 | on | on | ADP | _ | 49 margin | case |
| 48 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 49 margin | det |
| 49 | margin | margin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 sleeping | obl |
| 50 | of | of | ADP | _ | 52 graves | case |
| 51 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 52 graves | nmod:poss |
| 52 | graves | grave | NOUN | Number=Plur | 49 margin | nmod |
| 53 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 heavy | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the heart of the king | heavy property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | oppress | participle | the heart of the king not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | feel | past | king | for king | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent for himself=Theme | ||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | present | Antonio | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | think speech: other | past | Antonio | nothing of the perils | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot nothing=Theme | ||||
| 6 | impend | gerund | the thousands of devoted subjects | in the camp below king | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | sleep | gerund | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 8 | is | past | heart | the margin | of subjects's graves | 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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