Legends of the conquest of Spain, Chapter I., sentence 30
As he read the letter, the blood mantled in his sunburnt cheek and fire kindled in his eye; for he penetrated the motives of Muza.
Who acts: letter, blood · What happens: read, mantle, kindle, penetrate · To what, where: letter, blood, sunburnt cheek, eye, motives
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 (letter, blood), 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 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 3 read | mark |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 read | nsubj |
| 3 | read | read | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 kindled | advcl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 letter | det |
| 5 | letter | letter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 read | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 read | punct |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 blood | det |
| 8 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 kindled | nsubj |
| 9 | mantled | mantle | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 blood | acl |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 cheek | case |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 cheek | nmod:poss |
| 12 | sunburnt | sunburnt | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 cheek | amod |
| 13 | cheek | cheek | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 mantled | obl |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 fire | cc |
| 15 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 cheek | conj |
| 16 | kindled | kindle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 eye | case |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 eye | nmod:poss |
| 19 | eye | eye | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 kindled | obl |
| 20 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 23 penetrated | punct |
| 21 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 23 penetrated | mark |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 penetrated | nsubj |
| 23 | penetrated | penetrate | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 kindled | conj |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 motives | det |
| 25 | motives | motive | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 penetrated | obj |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 Muza | case |
| 27 | Muza | Muza | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 motives | nmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 kindled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | read | past | letter | the letter | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent letter=Topic | ||||
| 2 | mantle | participle | the blood not said here | letter's sunburnt cheek and fire | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | kindle | past | the blood | letter's eye | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 4 | penetrate | past | letter | the motives of Muza | vn poke-19 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent motive=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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