Legends of the conquest of Spain, Chapter I., sentence 16
Conquest was his only passion; glory the only reward he coveted.
Who acts: Conquest · What happens: be, glory, covet · To what, where: only passion, only reward
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 (Conquest), 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 | Conquest | Conquest | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 passion | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 passion | cop |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 passion | nmod:poss |
| 4 | only | only | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 passion | amod |
| 5 | passion | passion | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 7 glory | punct |
| 7 | glory | glory | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 5 passion | parataxis |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 reward | det |
| 9 | only | only | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 reward | amod |
| 10 | reward | reward | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 glory | obj |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 coveted | nsubj |
| 12 | coveted | covet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 reward | acl:relcl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 passion | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | Conquest | Conquest's only passion | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | glory | infinitive | the only reward | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | covet | past | Conquest | the only reward not said here | vn want-32.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot reward=Theme |
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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