Legends of the conquest of Spain, The Rise of Don Roderick.—his Government., sentence 16
Such is the picture which ancient writers give of Don Roderick, when, with all the stern and simple virtues unimpaired which he had acquired in adversity and exile, and flushed with the triumph of a pious revenge, he ascended the Gothic throne.
Who acts: ancient writers, appearance, pious revenge · What happens: be, give, unimpair, acquire, flush, ascend · To what, where: Such picture, simple virtues, stern, adversity, Gothic throne
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 (ancient writers, appearance, pious revenge), 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 | Such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 picture | amod |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 picture | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 picture | det |
| 4 | picture | picture | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 give | obj |
| 6 | ancient | ancient | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 writers | amod |
| 7 | writers | writer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 give | nsubj |
| 8 | give | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 picture | acl:relcl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 Don | case |
| 10 | Don | Don | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 give | obl |
| 11 | Roderick | Roderick | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Don | flat |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 when | punct |
| 13 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 8 give | parataxis |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 stern | punct |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 stern | case |
| 16 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 18 stern | det:predet |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 stern | det |
| 18 | stern | stern | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 give | parataxis |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 virtues | cc |
| 20 | simple | simple | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 virtues | amod |
| 21 | virtues | virtue | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 stern | conj |
| 22 | unimpaired | unimpair | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 virtues | acl |
| 23 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 26 acquired | nsubj:pass |
| 24 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 acquired | nsubj |
| 25 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 acquired | aux |
| 26 | acquired | acquire | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 stern | parataxis |
| 27 | in | in | ADP | _ | 28 adversity | case |
| 28 | adversity | adversity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 acquired | obl |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 exile | cc |
| 30 | exile | exile | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 adversity | conj |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 flushed | punct |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 flushed | cc |
| 33 | flushed | flush | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 give | parataxis |
| 34 | with | with | ADP | _ | 36 triumph | case |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 triumph | det |
| 36 | triumph | triumph | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 flushed | obl |
| 37 | of | of | ADP | _ | 40 revenge | case |
| 38 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 40 revenge | det |
| 39 | pious | pious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 revenge | amod |
| 40 | revenge | revenge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 triumph | nmod |
| 41 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 ascended | punct |
| 42 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 43 ascended | nsubj |
| 43 | ascended | ascend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 33 flushed | conj |
| 44 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 46 throne | det |
| 45 | Gothic | gothic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 46 throne | amod |
| 46 | throne | throne | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 ascended | obj |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 picture | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the Such picture | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | give | present | ancient writers | the Such picture | of Don; all stern and simple virtues parataxis | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Theme | |||
| 3 | unimpair | participle | simple virtues not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | acquire | past · perfect · passive | all stern and simple virtues | adversity and exile | appearance nsubj | vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Theme | |||
| 5 | flush | participle | with the triumph of a pious revenge | vn hiccup-40.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | ascend | past | appearance | the Gothic throne | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme throne=Trajectory | ||||
| 7 | triumph | a pious revenge | nom triumph «event intransitive»: of=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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