Legends of the conquest of Spain, Chapter XIII., sentence 6
Letters were incessantly despatched to Damascus by either party, exalting the merits of their own leader and decrying his rival.
Who acts: party · What happens: despatch, exalt, decry · To what, where: Letters, Damascus, merits, rival
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 (party), 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 | Letters | letter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 despatched | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 despatched | aux:pass |
| 3 | incessantly | incessantly | ADV | _ | 4 despatched | advmod |
| 4 | despatched | despatch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 Damascus | case |
| 6 | Damascus | Damascus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 despatched | obl |
| 7 | by | by | ADP | _ | 9 party | case |
| 8 | either | either | CCONJ | _ | 9 party | cc:preconj |
| 9 | party | party | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 despatched | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 exalting | punct |
| 11 | exalting | exalt | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 despatched | advcl |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 merits | det |
| 13 | merits | merit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 exalting | obj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 leader | case |
| 15 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 leader | nmod:poss |
| 16 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 leader | amod |
| 17 | leader | leader | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 merits | nmod |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 decrying | cc |
| 19 | decrying | decry | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 exalting | conj |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 rival | nmod:poss |
| 21 | rival | rival | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 decrying | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 despatched | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | despatch | past · passive | party | Letters | Damascus | incessantly property | tree rules | ||
| 2 | exalt | gerund | party not said here | the merits of Letters's own leader | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer merit=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | decry | gerund | party not said here | FEUD's rival | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rival=Theme |
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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