Legends of the conquest of Spain, Muza Arrives At Toledo.—interview Between Him and Taric., sentence 22
He then bestowed high praises upon the other chieftains for their services in the cause of Islam; but they answered not a word, and their countenances were gloomy and discontented, for they felt the injustice done to their favourite leader.
Who acts: madness, praises, countenances, chieftains · What happens: bestow, not answer, be, discontent, feel, do · To what, where: high praises, word, injustice, cause, Islam
This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Muza Arrives At Toledo.—interview Between Him and Taric.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (madness, praises, countenances, chieftains), 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 | 3 bestowed | nsubj |
| 2 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 bestowed | advmod |
| 3 | bestowed | bestow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 praises | amod |
| 5 | praises | praise | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 bestowed | obj |
| 6 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 9 chieftains | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 chieftains | det |
| 8 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 chieftains | amod |
| 9 | chieftains | chieftain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 praises | nmod |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 services | case |
| 11 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 services | nmod:poss |
| 12 | services | service | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 chieftains | nmod |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 cause | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 cause | det |
| 15 | cause | cause | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 services | nmod |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 Islam | case |
| 17 | Islam | Islam | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 cause | nmod |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 answered | punct |
| 19 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 21 answered | cc |
| 20 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 answered | nsubj |
| 21 | answered | answer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 bestowed | parataxis |
| 22 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 21 answered | advmod |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 word | det |
| 24 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 answered | obj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 gloomy | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 gloomy | cc |
| 27 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 countenances | nmod:poss |
| 28 | countenances | countenance | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 gloomy | nsubj |
| 29 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 gloomy | cop |
| 30 | gloomy | gloomy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 answered | conj |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 discontented | cc |
| 32 | discontented | discontent | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 bestowed | conj |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 felt | punct |
| 34 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 36 felt | mark |
| 35 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 felt | nsubj |
| 36 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 discontented | conj |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 injustice | det |
| 38 | injustice | injustice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 felt | obj |
| 39 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 38 injustice | acl |
| 40 | to | to | ADP | _ | 43 leader | case |
| 41 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 43 leader | nmod:poss |
| 42 | favourite | favourite | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 43 leader | amod |
| 43 | leader | leader | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 done | obl |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 bestowed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bestow | past | madness | high praises | then | upon the other chieftains for chieftains's services in the cause of Islam | tree rules | ||
| 2 | not answer speech: assert | past | praises = praise | a word | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent word=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | is | past | praises's countenances | gloomy property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | discontent | past | madness not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | feel | past | countenances = countenance | the injustice | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent injustice=Theme | ||||
| 6 | do | participle | the injustice not said here | to praises's favourite leader | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 7 | service | chieftains = chieftain | the cause of Islam | nom service «act transitive»: poss=agent in=place | |||||
| 8 | cause | Islam | nom cause «event 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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