Legends of the conquest of Spain, Chapter XIII., sentence 33

He was received, however, with rapture by the multitude, who crowded to behold one of those conquerors of the west, whose wonderful achievements were the theme of every tongue.

Who acts: multitude, wonderful achievements, theme · What happens: receive, crowd, behold, be, achieve · To what, where: Cadiz, one, theme

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 (multitude, wonderful achievements, theme), 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 received	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 received	aux:pass
3	received	receive	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 however	punct
5	however	however	ADV	_	3 received	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 rapture	punct
7	with	with	ADP	_	8 rapture	case
8	rapture	rapture	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 received	obl
9	by	by	ADP	_	11 multitude	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 multitude	det
11	multitude	multitude	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 received	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 crowded	punct
13	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 crowded	nsubj
14	crowded	crowd	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 multitude	acl:relcl
15	to	to	PART	_	16 behold	mark
16	behold	behold	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 crowded	xcomp
17	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	16 behold	obj
18	of	of	ADP	_	20 conquerors	case
19	those	that	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	20 conquerors	det
20	conquerors	conqueror	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 one	nmod
21	of	of	ADP	_	23 west	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 west	det
23	west	west	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 conquerors	nmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 achievements	punct
25	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	27 achievements	nmod:poss
26	wonderful	wonderful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 achievements	amod
27	achievements	achievement	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 theme	nsubj
28	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 theme	cop
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 theme	det
30	theme	theme	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 west	acl:relcl
31	of	of	ADP	_	33 tongue	case
32	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	33 tongue	det
33	tongue	tongue	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 theme	nmod
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 received	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	receive	past · passive	the multitude	Cadiz	with rapture; however property	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme
2	crowd	past	the multitude			tree rules
3	behold	to-infinitive	the multitude not said here	one of that conquerors of the west		vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer one=Stimulus
4	is a	past	the theme's wonderful achievements	the theme	of every tongue	tree rules
5	achieve		the theme			nom achievement «act 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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🌲 Legends of the conquest of Spain, Chapter XIII., sentence 33

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Pragmatics

Legends of the conquest of Spain, Chapter XIII., sentence 33