Legends of the conquest of Spain, Chapter I., sentence 15
But what endeared him to them more than all was his soldier-like contempt of gain.
What happens: endear, be · To what, where: spoil, Arabs
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: 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 3 endeared | cc |
| 2 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 endeared | nsubj |
| 3 | endeared | endear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 endeared | obj |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 them | case |
| 6 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 endeared | obl |
| 7 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 3 endeared | advmod |
| 8 | than | than | ADP | _ | 15 contempt | case |
| 9 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 15 contempt | advmod |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 contempt | cop |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 contempt | nmod:poss |
| 12 | soldier | soldier | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 like | compound |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 soldier | punct |
| 14 | like | like | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 contempt | amod |
| 15 | contempt | contempt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 more | obl |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 gain | case |
| 17 | gain | gain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 contempt | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 endeared | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | endear | past | spoil | Arabs = arab | what nsubj | tree rules | |||
| 2 | is | past | than spoil's like contempt; of gain; spoil nmod:poss | 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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