Legends of the conquest of Spain, Defence of the Convent of St. George By Pelistes., sentence 8
He was grieved at heart that such loyalty and valour should only lead to slavery or death, and resolved to make one desperate attempt for their deliverance.
Who acts: such loyalty, loyalty · What happens: grieve, lead, resolve, make, deliver · To what, where: Pelistes, heart, one desperate attempt
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 (such loyalty, loyalty), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 grieved | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 grieved | aux:pass |
| 3 | grieved | grieve | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 5 heart | case |
| 5 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 grieved | obl |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 13 lead | mark |
| 7 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 loyalty | amod |
| 8 | loyalty | loyalty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 lead | nsubj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 valour | cc |
| 10 | valour | valour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 loyalty | conj |
| 11 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 lead | aux |
| 12 | only | only | ADV | _ | 13 lead | advmod |
| 13 | lead | lead | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 grieved | advcl |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 slavery | case |
| 15 | slavery | slavery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 lead | obl |
| 16 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 17 death | cc |
| 17 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 slavery | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 resolved | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 resolved | cc |
| 20 | resolved | resolve | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 grieved | parataxis |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 make | mark |
| 22 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 resolved | advcl |
| 23 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 25 attempt | nummod |
| 24 | desperate | desperate | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 attempt | amod |
| 25 | attempt | attempt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 make | obj |
| 26 | for | for | ADP | _ | 28 deliverance | case |
| 27 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 deliverance | nmod:poss |
| 28 | deliverance | deliverance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 attempt | nmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 grieved | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grieve | past · passive | Pelistes | heart | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | lead | should | such loyalty and valour | to slavery or death | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition to slavery=Patient | ||||
| 3 | resolve | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | make | to-infinitive | one desperate attempt | for loyalty's deliverance | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP P.asset»: agent=Agent attempt=Product for deliverance=Asset | ||||
| 5 | deliver | loyalty | nom deliverance «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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