Legends of the conquest of Spain, Loves of Abdalasis and Exilona., sentence 24
A blush kindled on the cheek of Abdalasis, and he was silent for a moment.
Who acts: Abdalasis · What happens: kindle, be · To what, where: blush, cheek
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 (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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 blush | det |
| 2 | blush | blush | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | kindled | kindle | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 blush | acl |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 cheek | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 cheek | det |
| 6 | cheek | cheek | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 kindled | obl |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 Abdalasis | case |
| 8 | Abdalasis | Abdalasis | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 cheek | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 silent | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 silent | cc |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 silent | nsubj |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 silent | cop |
| 13 | silent | silent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 blush | parataxis |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 moment | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 moment | det |
| 16 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 silent | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 blush | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | kindle | participle | a blush not said here | the cheek of Abdalasis | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | is | past | Abdalasis | moment | silent property | 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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