Legends of the conquest of Spain, The Rise of Don Roderick.—his Government., sentence 4

He instructed himself in the use of arms; became adroit and vigorous by varied exercises; learned to despise all danger; and inured himself to hunger and watchfulness, and the rigour of the seasons.

Who acts: arm · What happens: instruct, become, learn, despise, inure, use · To what, where: arm, use, rigour, danger, arms

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 (arm), 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 instructed	nsubj
2	instructed	instruct	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	2 instructed	obj
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 use	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 use	det
6	use	use	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 instructed	obl
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 arms	case
8	arms	arm	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 use	nmod
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	10 became	punct
10	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 instructed	conj
11	adroit	adroit	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 became	xcomp
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 vigorous	cc
13	vigorous	vigorous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 adroit	conj
14	by	by	ADP	_	16 exercises	case
15	varied	varied	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 exercises	amod
16	exercises	exercise	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 adroit	obl
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	18 learned	punct
18	learned	learn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 became	conj
19	to	to	PART	_	20 despise	mark
20	despise	despise	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 learned	xcomp
21	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	22 danger	det
22	danger	danger	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 despise	obj
23	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 inured	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 inured	cc
25	inured	inure	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 became	conj
26	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	25 inured	obj
27	to	to	ADP	_	28 hunger	case
28	hunger	hunger	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 inured	obl
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 watchfulness	cc
30	watchfulness	watchfulness	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 hunger	conj
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 rigour	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 rigour	cc
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 rigour	det
34	rigour	rigour	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 became	xcomp
35	of	of	ADP	_	37 seasons	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 seasons	det
37	seasons	season	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 rigour	nmod
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 instructed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	instruct speech: other	past	arm	arm	the use of arms		vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent himself=Recipient
2	become	past	arm not said here	the rigour of the seasons		adroit property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
3	learn	participle	arm not said here				vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	despise	to-infinitive	arm not said here	all danger			vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer danger=Stimulus
5	inure	past	arm not said here	arm		to hunger and watchfulness	tree rules
6	use			arms			nom use «act 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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Legends of the conquest of Spain, The Rise of Don Roderick.—his Government., sentence 4