Legends of the conquest of Spain, Loves of Abdalasis and Exilona., sentence 26
It is one thing to be infatuated by the charms of a woman, and another to be touched by her misfortunes.
Who acts: weakness, charms, misfortunes · What happens: be, infatuate, touch · To what, where: one thing, another
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 (weakness, charms, misfortunes), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 thing | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 thing | cop |
| 3 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 thing | nummod |
| 4 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 infatuated | mark |
| 6 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 infatuated | aux:pass |
| 7 | infatuated | infatuate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 thing | acl |
| 8 | by | by | ADP | _ | 10 charms | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 charms | det |
| 10 | charms | charm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 infatuated | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 woman | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 woman | det |
| 13 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 charms | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 touched | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 touched | cc |
| 16 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 19 touched | nsubj:pass |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 touched | mark |
| 18 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 19 touched | aux:pass |
| 19 | touched | touch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 thing | acl:relcl |
| 20 | by | by | ADP | _ | 22 misfortunes | case |
| 21 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 misfortunes | nmod:poss |
| 22 | misfortunes | misfortune | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 touched | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 thing | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | weakness | one thing | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | infatuate | to-infinitive · passive | the charms of a woman | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | touch | to-infinitive · passive | Exilona's misfortunes | another | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme subject=Co-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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