Legends of the conquest of Spain, Loves of Abdalasis and Exilona., sentence 12
The youthful emir was moved by her tears, and accosted her in gentle accents.
What happens: move, accost · To what, where: youthful emir, emir, gentle accents
This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Loves of Abdalasis and Exilona.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 emir | det |
| 2 | youthful | youthful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 emir | amod |
| 3 | emir | emir | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 moved | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 moved | aux:pass |
| 5 | moved | move | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | by | by | ADP | _ | 8 tears | case |
| 7 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 tears | nmod:poss |
| 8 | tears | tear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 moved | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 accosted | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 accosted | cc |
| 11 | accosted | accost | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 moved | conj |
| 12 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 accosted | obj |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 accents | case |
| 14 | gentle | gentle | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 accents | amod |
| 15 | accents | accent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 accosted | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 moved | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | move | past · passive | the youthful emir | by emir's tears | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | accost | past | emir | gentle accents | tree rules |
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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