Legends of the conquest of Spain, Conduct of Abdalasis As Emir of Spain., sentence 2
He was of a generous and benignant disposition, but he was open and confiding, and easily led away by the opinions of those he loved.
Who acts: Abdalasis · What happens: be, confide, lead away, love, opine · To what, where: generous disposition, those
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 (Abdalasis), 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 | 8 disposition | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 disposition | cop |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 disposition | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 disposition | det |
| 5 | generous | generous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 disposition | amod |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 benignant | cc |
| 7 | benignant | benignant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 generous | conj |
| 8 | disposition | disposition | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 open | punct |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 13 open | cc |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 open | nsubj |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 open | cop |
| 13 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 disposition | parataxis |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 confiding | cc |
| 15 | confiding | confide | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 open | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 led | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 led | cc |
| 18 | easily | easily | ADV | _ | 19 led | advmod |
| 19 | led | lead | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 disposition | acl |
| 20 | away | away | ADV | _ | 19 led | advmod |
| 21 | by | by | ADP | _ | 23 opinions | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 opinions | det |
| 23 | opinions | opinion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 led | obl |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 those | case |
| 25 | those | that | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 23 opinions | nmod |
| 26 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 loved | nsubj |
| 27 | loved | love | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 those | acl:relcl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 disposition | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Abdalasis | of a generous disposition | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | past | Abdalasis | open property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | confide speech: other | gerund | Abdalasis not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | lead away | participle | a generous disposition not said here | by the opinions of those; away, easily property | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent by opinion=Destination | ||||
| 5 | love | past | Abdalasis | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 6 | opine | those | nom opinion «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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