Legends of the conquest of Spain, Chapter XIII., sentence 38
He gave a soldier-like account of his actions, frank and full, without any feigned modesty, yet without vainglory.
Who acts: TARIC · What happens: give, feign, account, act · To what, where: like account, actions
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 (TARIC), 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 | 2 gave | nsubj |
| 2 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 account | det |
| 4 | soldier | soldier | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 like | compound |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 soldier | punct |
| 6 | like | like | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 account | amod |
| 7 | account | account | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 gave | obj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 actions | case |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 actions | nmod:poss |
| 10 | actions | action | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 account | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 frank | punct |
| 12 | frank | frank | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 actions | conj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 full | cc |
| 14 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 frank | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 modesty | punct |
| 16 | without | without | ADP | _ | 19 modesty | case |
| 17 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 19 modesty | det |
| 18 | feigned | feign | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 modesty | amod |
| 19 | modesty | modesty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 gave | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 vainglory | punct |
| 21 | yet | yet | CCONJ | _ | 23 vainglory | cc |
| 22 | without | without | ADP | _ | 23 vainglory | case |
| 23 | vainglory | vainglory | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 gave | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past | TARIC | a like account of TARIC's actions and frank | without any feigned modesty; without vainglory | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent account=Theme | |||
| 2 | feign | participle | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | account | TARIC's actions and frank | nom account «communication transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 4 | act | TARIC | nom action «act intransitive»: 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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