Legends of the conquest of Spain, Muza Besieges the City of Merida., sentence 54
The arrival of this youthful warrior was hailed with great acclamations; so much had he won the hearts of the soldiery by the frankness, and suavity, and generosity of his conduct.
Who acts: Abdalasis, youthful warrior · What happens: hail, have, win, arrive, conduct · To what, where: arrival, suavity, hearts
This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Muza Besieges the City of Merida.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Abdalasis, youthful warrior), 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 arrival | det |
| 2 | arrival | arrival | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 hailed | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 warrior | case |
| 4 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 warrior | det |
| 5 | youthful | youthful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 warrior | amod |
| 6 | warrior | warrior | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 arrival | nmod |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 hailed | aux:pass |
| 8 | hailed | hail | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 acclamations | case |
| 10 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 acclamations | amod |
| 11 | acclamations | acclamation | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 hailed | obl |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 had | punct |
| 13 | so | so | ADV | _ | 14 much | advmod |
| 14 | much | much | ADV | _ | 15 had | advmod |
| 15 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 hailed | parataxis |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 won | nsubj |
| 17 | won | win | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 had | ccomp |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 hearts | det |
| 19 | hearts | heart | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 won | obj |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 soldiery | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 soldiery | det |
| 22 | soldiery | soldiery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 hearts | nmod |
| 23 | by | by | ADP | _ | 25 frankness | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 frankness | det |
| 25 | frankness | frankness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 soldiery | nmod |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 suavity | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 suavity | cc |
| 28 | suavity | suavity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 had | obl |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 generosity | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 generosity | cc |
| 31 | generosity | generosity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 hailed | parataxis |
| 32 | of | of | ADP | _ | 34 conduct | case |
| 33 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 34 conduct | nmod:poss |
| 34 | conduct | conduct | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 generosity | nmod |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 hailed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hail | past · passive | the arrival of this youthful warrior | with great acclamations; generosity of Abdalasis's conduct parataxis | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | have | past | suavity | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | win | past | Abdalasis | the hearts of the soldiery by the frankness | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heart=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | arrive | this youthful warrior | nom arrival «act intransitive»: of=agent | ||||||
| 5 | conduct | Abdalasis | nom conduct «act transitive»: poss=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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