Legends of the conquest of Spain, Expedition of Abdalasis Against Seville and the “land of Tadmir.”, sentence 32
The moderation and benignity of his conduct soothed the terrors of the vanquished, and his wise precautions restored tranquillity.
Who acts: moderation, wise precautions, son · What happens: soothe, vanquish, restore, conduct · To what, where: terrors
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 (moderation, wise precautions, son), 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 moderation | det |
| 2 | moderation | moderation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 soothed | nsubj |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 benignity | cc |
| 4 | benignity | benignity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 moderation | conj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 conduct | case |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 conduct | nmod:poss |
| 7 | conduct | conduct | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 moderation | nmod |
| 8 | soothed | soothe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 terrors | det |
| 10 | terrors | terror | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 soothed | obj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 tranquillity | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 tranquillity | det |
| 13 | vanquished | vanquish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 tranquillity | amod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 restored | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 restored | cc |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 precautions | nmod:poss |
| 17 | wise | wise | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 precautions | amod |
| 18 | precautions | precaution | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 restored | nsubj |
| 19 | restored | restore | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 tranquillity | amod |
| 20 | tranquillity | tranquillity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 terrors | nmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 soothed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | soothe | past | the moderation of son's conduct and benignity | the terrors of the vanquished restored tranquillity | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus terror=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | vanquish | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | restore | participle | son's wise precautions | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | conduct | son | 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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