Legends of the conquest of Spain, Capture of Granada.—subjugation of the Alpuxarra Mountains., sentence 41
The fiery son of Ishmael foamed with rage at being thus checked in his career and foiled in his revenge.
Who acts: fiery son, son · What happens: foam, check, foil, revenge · To what, where: career, revenge
This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Capture of Granada.—subjugation of the Alpuxarra Mountains.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fiery son, son), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 son | det |
| 2 | fiery | fiery | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 son | amod |
| 3 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 foamed | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 Ishmael | case |
| 5 | Ishmael | Ishmael | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 son | nmod |
| 6 | foamed | foam | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 rage | case |
| 8 | rage | rage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 foamed | obl |
| 9 | at | at | SCONJ | _ | 12 checked | mark |
| 10 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 checked | aux:pass |
| 11 | thus | thus | ADV | _ | 12 checked | advmod |
| 12 | checked | check | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 foamed | parataxis |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 career | case |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 career | nmod:poss |
| 15 | career | career | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 checked | obl |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 foiled | cc |
| 17 | foiled | foil | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 checked | conj |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 revenge | case |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 revenge | nmod:poss |
| 20 | revenge | revenge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 foiled | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 foamed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | foam | past | the fiery son of Ishmael | with rage | vn entity_specific_modes_being-47.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with rage=Theme | ||||
| 2 | check | gerund · passive | son's career | thus property | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: in career=Location | ||||
| 3 | foil | participle | son's revenge | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | revenge | son | nom revenge «act transitive»: poss=agent |
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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