Legends of the conquest of Spain, Loves of Abdalasis and Exilona., sentence 16
And, having said these words, she cast her eyes upon the earth, and her tears began to flow afresh.
Who acts: wife, tears · What happens: say, cast, begin, flow · To what, where: words, eyes, earth · Speech: someone speaks here
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: who acts (wife, tears), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 said | cc |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 And | punct |
| 3 | having | have | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 said | aux |
| 4 | said | say | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 6 words | det |
| 6 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 said | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 cast | punct |
| 8 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 cast | nsubj |
| 9 | cast | cast | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 said | parataxis |
| 10 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 11 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 cast | obj |
| 12 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 14 earth | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 earth | det |
| 14 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 cast | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 began | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 began | cc |
| 17 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 tears | nmod:poss |
| 18 | tears | tear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 began | nsubj |
| 19 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 cast | conj |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 flow | mark |
| 21 | flow | flow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 began | xcomp |
| 22 | afresh | afresh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 flow | xcomp |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | gerund · perfect | this words | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent word=Topic | |||||
| 2 | cast | past | wife | wife's eyes | the earth | vn throw-17.1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent eye=Theme upon earth=Destination | |||
| 3 | begin | past | wife's tears | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | flow | to-infinitive | wife's tears not said here | afresh property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=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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