Legends of the conquest of Spain, Chapter I., sentence 13
They admired his restless and daring spirit, which nothing could dismay.
Who acts: orders, restless spirit · What happens: admire, dare, dismay · To what, where: restless spirit
This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Chapter I.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (orders, restless spirit), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 admired | nsubj |
| 2 | admired | admire | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 spirit | nmod:poss |
| 4 | restless | restless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 spirit | amod |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 daring | cc |
| 6 | daring | dare | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 restless | conj |
| 7 | spirit | spirit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 admired | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 dismay | punct |
| 9 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 dismay | nsubj |
| 10 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 12 dismay | nsubj |
| 11 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 dismay | aux |
| 12 | dismay | dismay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 spirit | acl:relcl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 admired | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | admire | past | orders = order | spoil's restless spirit | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer spirit=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | dare | gerund | orders = order not said here | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | dismay | could | spoil's restless spirit | nothing nsubj | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
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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