Legends of the conquest of Spain, The Rise of Don Roderick.—his Government., sentence 15
He had a sagacity that penetrated the thoughts of men, and a magnificent spirit that won all hearts.
Who acts: appearance, sagacity, magnificent spirit · What happens: have, penetrate, win, think · To what, where: sagacity, thoughts, hearts, men
This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, The Rise of Don Roderick.—his Government.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (appearance, sagacity, magnificent spirit), 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 | 2 had | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 sagacity | det |
| 4 | sagacity | sagacity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 had | obj |
| 5 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 penetrated | nsubj |
| 6 | penetrated | penetrate | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 sagacity | acl:relcl |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 thoughts | det |
| 8 | thoughts | thought | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 penetrated | obj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 men | case |
| 10 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 thoughts | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 spirit | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 spirit | cc |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 spirit | det |
| 14 | magnificent | magnificent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 spirit | amod |
| 15 | spirit | spirit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 had | conj |
| 16 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 won | nsubj |
| 17 | won | win | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 spirit | acl:relcl |
| 18 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 19 hearts | det |
| 19 | hearts | heart | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 won | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | appearance | a sagacity | a magnificent spirit conj | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sagacity=Patient | |||
| 2 | penetrate | past | a sagacity | the thoughts of men | vn poke-19 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thought=Patient | ||||
| 3 | win | past | a magnificent spirit | all hearts | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heart=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | think | men | nom thought «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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