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Legends of the conquest of Spain, Chapter VI., sentence 8

Taric fixed his eyes upon the stranger: he was a Jewish rabbi, with a long beard which spread upon his gabardine, and descended even to his girdle.

Who acts: Taric, long beard · What happens: fix, be, spread, descend · To what, where: eyes, Jewish rabbi, gabardine, girdle

This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Chapter VI.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Taric, long beard), 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

nsubjnmod:possobjcasedetoblpunctnsubjcopdetamodoblpunctcasedetamodapposnsubjacl:relclcasenmod:possoblpunctccconjadvmodcasenmod:possobjpunctrootTaricPROPNfixedVERBhisPRONeyesNOUNuponADPtheDETstrangerNOUN:PUNCThePRONwasAUXaDETJewishADJrabbiNOUN,PUNCTwithADPaDETlongADJbeardNOUNwhichPRONspreadVERBuponADPhisPRONgabardineNOUN,PUNCTandCCONJdescendedVERBevenADVtoADPhisPRONgirdleNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1TaricTaricPROPNNumber=Sing2 fixednsubj
2fixedfixVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
3hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs4 eyesnmod:poss
4eyeseyeNOUNNumber=Plur2 fixedobj
5uponuponADP_7 strangercase
6thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art7 strangerdet
7strangerstrangerNOUNNumber=Sing2 fixedobl
8::PUNCT_13 rabbipunct
9hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs13 rabbinsubj
10wasbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin13 rabbicop
11aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art13 rabbidet
12JewishJewishADJDegree=Pos13 rabbiamod
13rabbirabbiNOUNNumber=Sing2 fixedobl
14,,PUNCT_18 beardpunct
15withwithADP_18 beardcase
16aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art18 bearddet
17longlongADJDegree=Pos18 beardamod
18beardbeardNOUNNumber=Sing13 rabbiappos
19whichwhichPRONPronType=Rel20 spreadnsubj
20spreadspreadVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin18 beardacl:relcl
21uponuponADP_23 gabardinecase
22hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs23 gabardinenmod:poss
23gabardinegabardineNOUNNumber=Sing20 spreadobl
24,,PUNCT_26 descendedpunct
25andandCCONJ_26 descendedcc
26descendeddescendVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin2 fixedconj
27evenevenADV_30 girdleadvmod
28totoADP_30 girdlecase
29hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs30 girdlenmod:poss
30girdlegirdleNOUNNumber=Sing26 descendedobj
31..PUNCT_2 fixedpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1fixpastTaricTaric's eyesupon the strangervn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent eye=Patient
2is apastTarica Jewish rabbia long beard appostree rules
3spreadpasta long beardTaric's gabardinevn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon gabardine=Location
4descendpastTaric not said hereTaric's girdlevn meander-47.7-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location girdle=Theme

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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