Legends of the conquest of Spain, Expedition of Magued Against Cordova.—defence of the Patriot Pelistes., sentence 7
The heart of Pelistes was free from ambition, and was too much broken by grief to be flattered by the offer of command; but he felt above every thing for the woes of his country, and was ready to assume any desperate service in her cause.
Who acts: heart, grief, offer, Pelistes, Roderick · What happens: be, break, flatter, feel, assume, offer · To what, where: ambition, thing, desperate service, cause, command
This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Expedition of Magued Against Cordova.—defence of the Patriot Pelistes.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (heart, grief, offer, Pelistes), 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 | 2 heart | det |
| 2 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 free | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 Pelistes | case |
| 4 | Pelistes | Pelistes | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 heart | nmod |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 free | cop |
| 6 | free | free | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | from | from | ADP | _ | 8 ambition | case |
| 8 | ambition | ambition | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 free | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 broken | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 broken | cc |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 broken | aux:pass |
| 12 | too | too | ADV | _ | 13 much | advmod |
| 13 | much | much | ADV | _ | 14 broken | advmod |
| 14 | broken | break | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 free | parataxis |
| 15 | by | by | ADP | _ | 16 grief | case |
| 16 | grief | grief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 broken | obl |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 flattered | mark |
| 18 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 19 flattered | aux:pass |
| 19 | flattered | flatter | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 grief | acl |
| 20 | by | by | ADP | _ | 22 offer | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 offer | det |
| 22 | offer | offer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 flattered | obl |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 command | case |
| 24 | command | command | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 offer | nmod |
| 25 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 28 felt | punct |
| 26 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 28 felt | cc |
| 27 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 felt | nsubj |
| 28 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 free | parataxis |
| 29 | above | above | ADP | _ | 31 thing | case |
| 30 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 31 thing | det |
| 31 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 felt | obl |
| 32 | for | for | ADP | _ | 34 woes | case |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 woes | det |
| 34 | woes | woe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 felt | obl |
| 35 | of | of | ADP | _ | 37 country | case |
| 36 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 37 country | nmod:poss |
| 37 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 woes | nmod |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 ready | punct |
| 39 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 41 ready | cc |
| 40 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 41 ready | cop |
| 41 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 felt | conj |
| 42 | to | to | PART | _ | 43 assume | mark |
| 43 | assume | assume | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 41 ready | xcomp |
| 44 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 46 service | det |
| 45 | desperate | desperate | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 46 service | amod |
| 46 | service | service | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 assume | obj |
| 47 | in | in | ADP | _ | 49 cause | case |
| 48 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 49 cause | nmod:poss |
| 49 | cause | cause | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 assume | obl |
| 50 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 free | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the heart of Pelistes | ambition | free property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | break | past · passive | grief | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 3 | flatter | to-infinitive · passive | the offer of command | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | feel | past | Pelistes | every thing | for the woes of Pelistes's country | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent above thing=Location for woe=Theme | |||
| 5 | is | past | Pelistes not said here | ready property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | assume | to-infinitive | Pelistes not said here | any desperate service | Roderick's cause | vn adopt-93.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent service=Theme | |||
| 7 | offer | command | nom offer «communication transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 8 | cause | Roderick | nom cause «event 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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