Legends of the conquest of Spain, Muza Arrives At Toledo.—interview Between Him and Taric., sentence 28
The gaunt Taric still maintained an air of stern composure.
Who acts: gaunt Taric · What happens: maintain · To what, where: air
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 (gaunt Taric), 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 | 3 Taric | det |
| 2 | gaunt | gaunt | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Taric | amod |
| 3 | Taric | Taric | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 maintained | nsubj |
| 4 | still | still | ADV | _ | 5 maintained | advmod |
| 5 | maintained | maintain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 air | det |
| 7 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 maintained | obj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 composure | case |
| 9 | stern | stern | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 composure | amod |
| 10 | composure | composure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 air | nmod |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 maintained | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | maintain | past | the gaunt Taric | a air of stern composure | still | vn declare-29.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent air=Theme |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg77685/32/28/