Legends of the conquest of Spain, Muza Ben Nozier.—his Entrance Into Spain, and Capture of Carmona., sentence 4
This Abdalasis was in the flower of his youth, and beloved by the soldiery for the magnanimity and the engaging affability which graced his courage.
Who acts: Abdalasis, engaging affability · What happens: be, belov, engage, grace · To what, where: flower, courage
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 (Abdalasis, engaging affability), 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 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 Abdalasis | det |
| 2 | Abdalasis | Abdalasis | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 flower | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 flower | cop |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 flower | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 flower | det |
| 6 | flower | flower | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 youth | case |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 youth | nmod:poss |
| 9 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 flower | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 beloved | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 beloved | cc |
| 12 | beloved | belov | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 flower | acl |
| 13 | by | by | ADP | _ | 15 soldiery | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 soldiery | det |
| 15 | soldiery | soldiery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 beloved | obl |
| 16 | for | for | ADP | _ | 18 magnanimity | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 magnanimity | det |
| 18 | magnanimity | magnanimity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 soldiery | nmod |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 affability | cc |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 affability | det |
| 21 | engaging | engage | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 22 affability | amod |
| 22 | affability | affability | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 soldiery | conj |
| 23 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 24 graced | nsubj |
| 24 | graced | grace | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 affability | acl:relcl |
| 25 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 courage | nmod:poss |
| 26 | courage | courage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 graced | obj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 flower | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | this Abdalasis | the flower | of Abdalasis's youth | tree rules | |||
| 2 | belov | participle | the flower not said here | by the soldiery for the magnanimity and the engaging affability | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | engage | gerund | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-2 «NP V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 4 | grace | past | the engaging affability | Abdalasis's courage | vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme courage=Destination |
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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