Legends of the conquest of Spain, Conduct of Abdalasis As Emir of Spain., sentence 22
He had long loathed all communion with these men; for there is nothing which the open, ingenuous nature so much abhors as duplicity and treason.
Who acts: Abdalasis, nothing · What happens: loathe, be, abhor · To what, where: communion
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, nothing), 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 | 4 loathed | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 loathed | aux |
| 3 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 4 loathed | advmod |
| 4 | loathed | loathe | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 6 communion | det |
| 6 | communion | communion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 loathed | obj |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 men | case |
| 8 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 9 men | det |
| 9 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 communion | nmod |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 is | punct |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 is | case |
| 12 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 13 is | expl |
| 13 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 loathed | parataxis |
| 14 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 13 is | nsubj |
| 15 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 23 abhors | nsubj |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 nature | det |
| 17 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 nature | amod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 open | punct |
| 19 | ingenuous | ingenuous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 nature | amod |
| 20 | nature | nature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 abhors | nsubj |
| 21 | so | so | ADV | _ | 22 much | advmod |
| 22 | much | much | ADV | _ | 23 abhors | advmod |
| 23 | abhors | abhor | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 nothing | acl:relcl |
| 24 | as | as | ADP | _ | 25 duplicity | case |
| 25 | duplicity | duplicity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 abhors | obl |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 treason | cc |
| 27 | treason | treason | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 duplicity | conj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 loathed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | loathe | past · perfect | Abdalasis | all communion | with this men; long property | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer communion=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | be | present | nothing | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | abhor | present | as duplicity and treason; which nsubj; the open ingenuous nature nsubj | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |
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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