Legends of the conquest of Spain, Meeting Between the Patriot Pelistes and the Traitor Julian., sentence 2
He was for a long time disabled by his wounds, during which he was kindly treated by the Arab chieftains, who strove by every courteous means to cheer his sadness and make him forget that he was a captive.
Who acts: Pelistes, Arab chieftains, courteous · What happens: be, disable, treat, strove, mean, cheer · To what, where: long time, Pelistes, sadness, captive · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Meeting Between the Patriot Pelistes and the Traitor Julian.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Pelistes, Arab chieftains, courteous), 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 | 6 time | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 time | cop |
| 3 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 time | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 time | det |
| 5 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 time | amod |
| 6 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | disabled | disable | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 time | acl |
| 8 | by | by | ADP | _ | 10 wounds | case |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 wounds | nmod:poss |
| 10 | wounds | wound | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 disabled | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 treated | punct |
| 12 | during | during | ADP | _ | 13 which | case |
| 13 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 treated | obl |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 treated | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 treated | aux:pass |
| 16 | kindly | kindly | ADV | _ | 17 treated | advmod |
| 17 | treated | treat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 time | acl |
| 18 | by | by | ADP | _ | 21 chieftains | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 chieftains | det |
| 20 | Arab | Arab | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 chieftains | amod |
| 21 | chieftains | chieftain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 treated | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 strove | punct |
| 23 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 24 strove | nsubj |
| 24 | strove | strove | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 chieftains | acl:relcl |
| 25 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 28 means | mark |
| 26 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 27 courteous | det |
| 27 | courteous | courteous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 means | nsubj |
| 28 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 strove | advcl |
| 29 | to | to | PART | _ | 30 cheer | mark |
| 30 | cheer | cheer | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 28 means | ccomp |
| 31 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 sadness | nmod:poss |
| 32 | sadness | sadness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 cheer | obj |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 make | cc |
| 34 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 30 cheer | conj |
| 35 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 make | obj |
| 36 | forget | forget | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 34 make | xcomp |
| 37 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 41 captive | mark |
| 38 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 41 captive | nsubj |
| 39 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 41 captive | cop |
| 40 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 41 captive | det |
| 41 | captive | captive | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 forget | advcl |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 time | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Pelistes | for a long time | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | disable | participle | a long time not said here | by Pelistes's wounds | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | treat | past · passive | the Arab chieftains | Pelistes | during a long time | kindly property | vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent subject=Recipient | ||
| 4 | strove | present | the Arab chieftains | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | mean | present | every courteous | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 6 | cheer not said to happen | to-infinitive | Pelistes's sadness | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus sadness=Experiencer | |||||
| 7 | make | infinitive | Pelistes | tree rules | |||||
| 8 | forget | infinitive | Pelistes not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 9 | is a | past | Pelistes | a captive | tree rules | ||||
| 10 | wound | Pelistes | nom wound «state 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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