Legends of the conquest of Spain, Chapter XIII., sentence 36
Behold the true model of a warrior, who despises gain, and seeks for nought but glory!”
Who acts: true model · What happens: despise, gain, seek, model · To what, where: warrior
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 (true model), 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 | Behold | behold | INTJ | _ | 4 model | discourse |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 model | det |
| 3 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 model | amod |
| 4 | model | model | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 despises | nsubj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 warrior | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 warrior | det |
| 7 | warrior | warrior | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 model | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 despises | punct |
| 9 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 despises | nsubj |
| 10 | despises | despise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | gain | gain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 despises | ccomp |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 seeks | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 seeks | cc |
| 14 | seeks | seek | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 despises | conj |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 nought | case |
| 16 | nought | nought | PRON | PronType=Neg | 14 seeks | obl |
| 17 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 18 glory | cc |
| 18 | glory | glory | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 nought | conj |
| 19 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 14 seeks | punct |
| 20 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 despises | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | despise | present | the true model of a warrior | who nsubj | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | gain | present | the true model of a warrior not said here | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||||
| 3 | seek | present | the true model of a warrior not said here | for nought glory | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent for nought=Theme | ||||
| 4 | model | a warrior | nom model «cognition 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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