Legends of the conquest of Spain, Defence of the Convent of St. George By Pelistes., sentence 7
Pelistes, however, read their sufferings in their wan and emaciated countenances, and felt more for them than for himself.
Who acts: Pelistes, provisions · What happens: read, emaciate, feel, suffer · To what, where: sufferings, wan countenances, more
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 (Pelistes, 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 | Pelistes | Pelistes | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 read | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Pelistes | punct |
| 3 | however | however | ADV | _ | 5 read | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 however | punct |
| 5 | read | read | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 sufferings | nmod:poss |
| 7 | sufferings | suffering | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 read | obj |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 countenances | case |
| 9 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 countenances | nmod:poss |
| 10 | wan | wan | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 countenances | amod |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 emaciated | cc |
| 12 | emaciated | emaciate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 wan | conj |
| 13 | countenances | countenance | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 read | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 felt | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 felt | cc |
| 16 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 read | conj |
| 17 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 16 felt | obj |
| 18 | for | for | ADP | _ | 19 them | case |
| 19 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 felt | obl |
| 20 | than | than | ADP | _ | 22 himself | case |
| 21 | for | for | ADP | _ | 22 himself | case |
| 22 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 16 felt | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 read | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | read | infinitive | Pelistes | provisions's sufferings | provisions's wan countenances | however property | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent suffering=Topic | ||
| 2 | emaciate | participle | Pelistes not said here | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 3 | feel | past | Pelistes not said here | more | for provisions = provision; than Pelistes | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent more=Location for they=Theme | |||
| 4 | suffer | provisions = provision | nom suffering «state intransitive»: 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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