Legends of the conquest of Spain, Chapter XIII., sentence 21
With this display of trophies and spoils, showing the magnificence of the land he had conquered, he looked forward with confidence to silence the calumnies of his foes.
Who acts: man · What happens: spoil, show, conquer, look, display · To what, where: magnificence, land, trophies
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 (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 | With | with | ADP | _ | 3 display | case |
| 2 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 display | det |
| 3 | display | display | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 looked | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 trophies | case |
| 5 | trophies | trophy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 display | nmod |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 spoils | cc |
| 7 | spoils | spoil | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 trophies | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 showing | punct |
| 9 | showing | show | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 spoils | advcl |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 magnificence | det |
| 11 | magnificence | magnificence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 showing | obj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 land | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 land | det |
| 14 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 magnificence | nmod |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 conquered | nsubj |
| 16 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 conquered | aux |
| 17 | conquered | conquer | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 14 land | acl:relcl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 display | punct |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 looked | nsubj |
| 20 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 21 | forward | forward | ADV | _ | 20 looked | advmod |
| 22 | with | with | ADP | _ | 23 confidence | case |
| 23 | confidence | confidence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 looked | obl |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 silence | mark |
| 25 | silence | silence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 confidence | conj |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 calumnies | det |
| 27 | calumnies | calumny | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 silence | appos |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 foes | case |
| 29 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 foes | nmod:poss |
| 30 | foes | foe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 calumnies | nmod |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 20 looked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | spoil | present | man not said here | vn entity_specific_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 2 | show | gerund | man not said here | the magnificence of the land | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent magnificence=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | conquer | past · perfect | man | the land not said here | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent land=Patient | ||||
| 4 | look | past | man | with this display of trophies; with confidence and silence; forward property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | display | trophies | nom display «communication 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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