Legends of the conquest of Spain, Loves of Abdalasis and Exilona., sentence 27
It is the duty of my station to console a princess who has been reduced to the lowest humiliation by the triumphs of our arms.
Who acts: weakness, triumphs, arms · What happens: be, reduce, triumph · To what, where: duty, princess, lowest humiliation
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, triumphs, arms), 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 duty | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 duty | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 duty | det |
| 4 | duty | duty | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 station | case |
| 6 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 station | nmod:poss |
| 7 | station | station | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 duty | nmod |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 console | mark |
| 9 | console | console | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 station | conj |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 princess | det |
| 11 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 console | appos |
| 12 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 reduced | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 reduced | aux |
| 14 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 15 reduced | aux:pass |
| 15 | reduced | reduce | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 princess | acl:relcl |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 humiliation | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 humiliation | det |
| 18 | lowest | low | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 19 humiliation | amod |
| 19 | humiliation | humiliation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 reduced | obl |
| 20 | by | by | ADP | _ | 22 triumphs | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 triumphs | det |
| 22 | triumphs | triumph | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 reduced | obl |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 arms | case |
| 24 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 arms | nmod:poss |
| 25 | arms | arm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 triumphs | nmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 duty | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | weakness | the duty | of my station and console | tree rules | |||
| 2 | reduce | present · perfect · passive | the triumphs of our arms | a princess | to the lowest humiliation goal | vn limit-76 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Causer subject=Patient to humiliation=Goal | |||
| 3 | triumph | our arms | nom triumph «event intransitive»: of=agent |
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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