Legends of the conquest of Spain, Muza Ben Nozier.—his Entrance Into Spain, and Capture of Carmona., sentence 13
The Goths had by this time recovered from their first panic; they had become accustomed to the sight of Moslem troops, and their native courage had been roused by danger.
Who acts: Goths, time, danger · What happens: have, recover, become, accustom, rouse, panic · To what, where: first panic, native courage, Moslem troops
This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Muza Ben Nozier.—his Entrance Into Spain, and Capture of Carmona.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Goths, time, danger), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Goths | det |
| 2 | Goths | goth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 had | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 7 recovered | mark |
| 5 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 time | det |
| 6 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 recovered | nsubj |
| 7 | recovered | recover | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 had | advcl |
| 8 | from | from | ADP | _ | 11 panic | case |
| 9 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 panic | nmod:poss |
| 10 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 11 panic | amod |
| 11 | panic | panic | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 recovered | obl |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 become | punct |
| 13 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 become | nsubj |
| 14 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 become | aux |
| 15 | become | become | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 had | conj |
| 16 | accustomed | accustom | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 become | xcomp |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 sight | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 sight | det |
| 19 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 accustomed | obl |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 troops | case |
| 21 | Moslem | Moslem | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 troops | amod |
| 22 | troops | troops | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 19 sight | nmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 roused | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 roused | cc |
| 25 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 courage | nmod:poss |
| 26 | native | native | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 courage | amod |
| 27 | courage | courage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 roused | nsubj:pass |
| 28 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 roused | aux |
| 29 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 30 roused | aux:pass |
| 30 | roused | rouse | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 had | conj |
| 31 | by | by | ADP | _ | 32 danger | case |
| 32 | danger | danger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 roused | obl |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | the Goths | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | recover | past | this time | Goths's first panic | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent from panic=Source | ||||
| 3 | become | past · perfect | Goths = goth | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | accustom | participle | Goths = goth not said here | to the sight of Moslem troops | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | rouse | past · perfect · passive | danger | Goths's native courage | vn stimulate-59.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient | ||||
| 6 | panic | Goths = goth | nom panic «feeling transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 7 | sight | Moslem troops | nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
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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