Legends of the conquest of Spain, Defence of the Convent of St. George By Pelistes., sentence 6
They suffered the wasting miseries of famine without a murmur, and always met their commander with a smile.
Who acts: provisions · What happens: suffer, meet · To what, where: wasting miseries, commander
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 (provisions), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 suffered | nsubj |
| 2 | suffered | suffer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 miseries | det |
| 4 | wasting | wasting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 miseries | compound |
| 5 | miseries | misery | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 suffered | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 famine | case |
| 7 | famine | famine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 miseries | nmod |
| 8 | without | without | ADP | _ | 10 murmur | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 murmur | det |
| 10 | murmur | murmur | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 suffered | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 met | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 met | cc |
| 13 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 14 met | advmod |
| 14 | met | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 suffered | conj |
| 15 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 commander | nmod:poss |
| 16 | commander | commander | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 met | obj |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 19 smile | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 smile | det |
| 19 | smile | smile | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 met | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 suffered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | suffer | past | provisions = provision | the wasting miseries of famine | without a murmur | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer misery=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | meet | past | provisions = provision not said here | provisions's commander | with a smile; always property | vn satisfy-55.7 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent commander=Theme with smile=Instrument |
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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