Legends of the conquest of Spain, Loves of Abdalasis and Exilona., sentence 17
The generous feelings of Abdalasis were aroused at the sight of beauty and royalty in tears.
What happens: arouse, sight · To what, where: generous feelings, sight, beauty
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 feelings | det |
| 2 | generous | generous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 feelings | amod |
| 3 | feelings | feeling | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 aroused | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 Abdalasis | case |
| 5 | Abdalasis | Abdalasis | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 feelings | nmod |
| 6 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 aroused | aux:pass |
| 7 | aroused | arouse | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 10 sight | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 sight | det |
| 10 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 aroused | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 beauty | case |
| 12 | beauty | beauty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 sight | nmod |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 royalty | cc |
| 14 | royalty | royalty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 beauty | conj |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 tears | case |
| 16 | tears | tear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 royalty | nmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 aroused | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | arouse | past · passive | the generous feelings of Abdalasis | the sight of beauty and royalty in tears | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | sight | beauty and royalty in tears | nom sight «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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