Legends of the conquest of Spain, Expedition of Abdalasis Against Seville and the “land of Tadmir.”, sentence 11
It is becoming in youth to look upward, and be aspiring.
Who acts: heart · What happens: become, look, aspire · To what, where: youth
This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Expedition of Abdalasis Against Seville and the “land of Tadmir.”. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (heart), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 becoming | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 becoming | aux |
| 3 | becoming | become | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 youth | case |
| 5 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 becoming | obl |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 look | mark |
| 7 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 becoming | advcl |
| 8 | upward | upward | ADV | _ | 7 look | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 aspiring | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 aspiring | cc |
| 11 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 12 aspiring | aux |
| 12 | aspiring | aspire | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 becoming | conj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 becoming | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | become | present · progressive | heart | in youth result | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in youth=Result | ||||
| 2 | look | to-infinitive | heart not said here | upward property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | aspire | infinitive · progressive | heart not said here | tree rules |
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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