Legends of the conquest of Spain, Of the Ancient Inhabitants of Spain.—of the Misrule of Witiza the Wicked., sentence 9
Their simple and abstemious habits, their contempt for toil and suffering, and their love of daring enterprise, fitted them for a soldier’s life.
Who acts: simple habits, Spaniards · What happens: fit, love · To what, where: Spaniards, daring enterprise
This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Of the Ancient Inhabitants of Spain.—of the Misrule of Witiza the Wicked.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (simple habits, Spaniards), 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 | Their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 habits | nmod:poss |
| 2 | simple | simple | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 habits | amod |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 abstemious | cc |
| 4 | abstemious | abstemious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 simple | conj |
| 5 | habits | habit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 fitted | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 contempt | punct |
| 7 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 contempt | nmod:poss |
| 8 | contempt | contempt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 habits | conj |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 toil | case |
| 10 | toil | toil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 contempt | nmod |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 suffering | cc |
| 12 | suffering | suffering | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 toil | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 love | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 love | cc |
| 15 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 love | nmod:poss |
| 16 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 habits | conj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 enterprise | case |
| 18 | daring | daring | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 enterprise | amod |
| 19 | enterprise | enterprise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 love | nmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 habits | punct |
| 21 | fitted | fit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 22 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 fitted | obj |
| 23 | for | for | ADP | _ | 27 life | case |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 soldier | det |
| 25 | soldier | soldier | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 life | nmod:poss |
| 26 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 25 soldier | case |
| 27 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 fitted | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 21 fitted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fit | past | Spaniards's simple habits and Spaniards's contempt for toil and suffering and Spaniards's love of daring enterprise | Spaniards = spaniard | for a soldier's life | vn adjust-26.9 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient | |||
| 2 | love | Spaniards = spaniard | daring enterprise | nom love «feeling transitive»: poss=agent of=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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