Legends of the conquest of Spain, Muza Besieges the City of Merida., sentence 58
His hair and beard were tinged of a ruddy brown; his countenance was refreshed by repose, and flushed with indignation; and he appeared a man in the matured vigour of his days.
Who acts: repose, Muza · What happens: ting, refresh, flush, appear, mature · To what, where: hair, countenance, man, matured vigour
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 (repose, Muza), 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 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 hair | nmod:poss |
| 2 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 tinged | nsubj |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 beard | cc |
| 4 | beard | beard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 hair | conj |
| 5 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 tinged | aux:pass |
| 6 | tinged | ting | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 brown | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 brown | det |
| 9 | ruddy | ruddy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 brown | amod |
| 10 | brown | brown | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 tinged | obl |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 refreshed | punct |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 countenance | nmod:poss |
| 13 | countenance | countenance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 refreshed | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 refreshed | aux:pass |
| 15 | refreshed | refresh | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 tinged | conj |
| 16 | by | by | ADP | _ | 17 repose | case |
| 17 | repose | repose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 refreshed | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 flushed | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 flushed | cc |
| 20 | flushed | flush | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 refreshed | conj |
| 21 | with | with | ADP | _ | 22 indignation | case |
| 22 | indignation | indignation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 flushed | obl |
| 23 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 26 appeared | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 appeared | cc |
| 25 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 appeared | nsubj |
| 26 | appeared | appear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 tinged | parataxis |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 man | det |
| 28 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 appeared | obj |
| 29 | in | in | ADP | _ | 32 vigour | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 vigour | det |
| 31 | matured | mature | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 32 vigour | amod |
| 32 | vigour | vigour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 appeared | obl |
| 33 | of | of | ADP | _ | 35 days | case |
| 34 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 35 days | nmod:poss |
| 35 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 vigour | nmod |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 tinged | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ting | past · passive | Muza's hair and beard | of a ruddy brown | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | refresh | past · passive | repose | Muza's countenance | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus subject=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | flush | participle | repose not said here | with indignation | vn hiccup-40.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | appear | past | Muza | a man | the matured vigour of Muza's days | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location man=Theme | |||
| 5 | mature | participle | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=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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