Legends of the conquest of Spain, Muza Arrives At Toledo.—interview Between Him and Taric., sentence 38
It is thus the envious man brings humiliation and reproach upon himself, in endeavouring to degrade a meritorious rival.
Who acts: result, envious man · What happens: be, bring, endeavour, degrade · To what, where: humiliation, meritorious rival
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 (result, envious man), 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 thus | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 thus | cop |
| 3 | thus | thus | ADV | _ | 7 brings | advmod |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 man | det |
| 5 | envious | envious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 man | amod |
| 6 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 brings | nsubj |
| 7 | brings | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | humiliation | humiliation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 brings | obj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 reproach | cc |
| 10 | reproach | reproach | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 humiliation | conj |
| 11 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 12 himself | case |
| 12 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 7 brings | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 endeavouring | punct |
| 14 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 15 endeavouring | mark |
| 15 | endeavouring | endeavour | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 brings | advcl |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 degrade | mark |
| 17 | degrade | degrade | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 endeavouring | xcomp |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 rival | det |
| 19 | meritorious | meritorious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 rival | amod |
| 20 | rival | rival | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 degrade | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 brings | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | result | thus property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | bring | present | the envious man | humiliation and reproach | upon Muza | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent humiliation=Theme | |||
| 3 | endeavour | gerund | the envious man not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | degrade | to-infinitive | the envious man not said here | a meritorious rival | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent rival=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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