Legends of the conquest of Spain, Chapter XIII., sentence 14
It was a grievous blow to a man of his pride and ambition; but he prepared instantly to obey.
Who acts: sovereign, man · What happens: be, prepare, obey, pride · To what, where: grievous blow
This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Chapter XIII.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sovereign, 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 | 5 blow | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 blow | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 blow | det |
| 4 | grievous | grievous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 blow | amod |
| 5 | blow | blow | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 man | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 man | det |
| 8 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 blow | nmod |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 pride | case |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 pride | nmod:poss |
| 11 | pride | pride | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 man | nmod |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 ambition | cc |
| 13 | ambition | ambition | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 pride | conj |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 prepared | punct |
| 15 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 prepared | cc |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 prepared | nsubj |
| 17 | prepared | prepare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 blow | conj |
| 18 | instantly | instantly | ADV | _ | 17 prepared | advmod |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 obey | mark |
| 20 | obey | obey | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 prepared | xcomp |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 blow | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | sovereign | a grievous blow | to a man of man's pride and ambition | tree rules | |||
| 2 | prepare | past | man | instantly property | vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Agent clause=Attribute | ||||
| 3 | obey not said to happen | to-infinitive | man not said here | vn abide_by-93.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | pride | man | nom pride «feeling 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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