Legends of the conquest of Spain, Chapter XIII., sentence 34
They were charmed with his gaunt and martial air, his hard sunburnt features, and his scathed eye.
Who acts: Cadiz · What happens: charm, scathe, feature · To what, where: achievements
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 (Cadiz), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 charmed | nsubj |
| 2 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 charmed | aux:pass |
| 3 | charmed | charm | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 air | case |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 air | nmod:poss |
| 6 | gaunt | gaunt | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 air | amod |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 martial | cc |
| 8 | martial | martial | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 gaunt | conj |
| 9 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 charmed | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 features | punct |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 features | nmod:poss |
| 12 | hard | hard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 features | amod |
| 13 | sunburnt | sunburnt | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 features | amod |
| 14 | features | feature | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 air | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 eye | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 eye | cc |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 eye | nmod:poss |
| 18 | scathed | scathe | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 eye | amod |
| 19 | eye | eye | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 charmed | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 charmed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | charm | past · passive | achievements = achievement | with Cadiz's gaunt air and Cadiz's hard sunburnt features; Cadiz's scathed eye obl | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | scathe | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | feature | Cadiz | nom feature «cognition 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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