Legends of the conquest of Spain, Defence of the Convent of St. George By Pelistes., sentence 41
Magued, though an apostate, and a fierce warrior, possessed some sparks of knightly magnanimity.
Who acts: fierce warrior, knightly magnanimity · What happens: possess, spark · To what, where: sparks, Magued
This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Defence of the Convent of St. George By Pelistes.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fierce warrior, knightly magnanimity), 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 | Magued | Magued | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 apostate | punct |
| 3 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 5 apostate | mark |
| 4 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 apostate | det |
| 5 | apostate | apostate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Magued | appos |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 warrior | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 warrior | cc |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 warrior | det |
| 9 | fierce | fierce | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 warrior | amod |
| 10 | warrior | warrior | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Magued | appos |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 possessed | punct |
| 12 | possessed | possess | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 warrior | acl |
| 13 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 14 sparks | det |
| 14 | sparks | spark | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 possessed | obj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 magnanimity | case |
| 16 | knightly | knightly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 magnanimity | amod |
| 17 | magnanimity | magnanimity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 sparks | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Magued | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | possess | participle | a fierce warrior not said here | some sparks of knightly magnanimity | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot spark=Theme | ||||
| 3 | spark | knightly magnanimity | nom spark «event intransitive»: of=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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