Legends of the conquest of Spain, Chapter I., sentence 8
Taric el Tuerto, though a thorough man of the sword, and one whose whole thoughts were warlike, yet evinced wonderful judgment and discretion.
Who acts: one · What happens: be, evince · To what, where: wonderful judgment, Taric
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 (one), 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 | Taric | Taric | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | el | El | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Taric | flat |
| 3 | Tuerto | Tuerto | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Taric | flat |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 man | punct |
| 5 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 8 man | mark |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 man | det |
| 7 | thorough | thorough | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 man | amod |
| 8 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Taric | appos |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 sword | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 sword | det |
| 11 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 man | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 warlike | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 warlike | cc |
| 14 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 19 warlike | nsubj |
| 15 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 17 thoughts | nmod:poss |
| 16 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 thoughts | amod |
| 17 | thoughts | thought | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 warlike | nsubj |
| 18 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 warlike | cop |
| 19 | warlike | warlike | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Taric | parataxis |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 evinced | punct |
| 21 | yet | yet | CCONJ | _ | 22 evinced | cc |
| 22 | evinced | evince | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 warlike | conj |
| 23 | wonderful | wonderful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 judgment | amod |
| 24 | judgment | judgment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 evinced | obj |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 discretion | cc |
| 26 | discretion | discretion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 judgment | conj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Taric | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | one | whole thoughts nsubj; warlike property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | evince | participle | one not said here | wonderful judgment and discretion | 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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