Legends of the conquest of Spain, Conduct of Abdalasis As Emir of Spain., sentence 10
It is an idle passion which enfeebles the heart, and blinds the judgment: it renders the mighty weak, and makes slaves of princes.
Who acts: love, idle passion · What happens: be, enfeeble, blind, render, make · To what, where: idle passion, heart, judgment, mighty weak, slaves
This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Conduct of Abdalasis As Emir of Spain.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (love, idle passion), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 passion | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 passion | cop |
| 3 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 passion | det |
| 4 | idle | idle | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 passion | amod |
| 5 | passion | passion | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 enfeebles | nsubj |
| 7 | enfeebles | enfeeble | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 passion | acl:relcl |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 heart | det |
| 9 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 enfeebles | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 blinds | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 blinds | cc |
| 12 | blinds | blind | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 enfeebles | conj |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 judgment | det |
| 14 | judgment | judgment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 blinds | obj |
| 15 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 17 renders | punct |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 renders | nsubj |
| 17 | renders | render | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 judgment | acl:relcl |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 weak | det |
| 19 | mighty | mighty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 weak | amod |
| 20 | weak | weak | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 renders | obj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 makes | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 makes | cc |
| 23 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 renders | conj |
| 24 | slaves | slave | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 makes | obj |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 princes | case |
| 26 | princes | prince | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 slaves | nmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 passion | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | love | a idle passion | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | enfeeble | present | a idle passion | the heart | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | blind | present | a idle passion not said here | the judgment | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | render | present | love | the mighty weak | vn give-13.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent weak=Theme | ||||
| 5 | make | present | love not said here | slaves of princes | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset slave=Product |
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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