Legends of the conquest of Spain, Loves of Abdalasis and Exilona., sentence 31

He daily became more and more enamoured; and Exilona gradually ceased to weep, and began to listen with secret pleasure to the words of her Arab lover.

Who acts: Abdalasis, Exilona · What happens: become, cease, weep, begin, listen, word · To what, where: Arab lover

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, Exilona), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 became	nsubj
2	daily	daily	ADV	_	3 became	advmod
3	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	3 became	advmod
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 enamoured	cc
6	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	7 enamoured	advmod
7	enamoured	enamoured	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 became	conj
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	12 ceased	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 Exilona	cc
10	Exilona	Exilona	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 ceased	nsubj
11	gradually	gradually	ADV	_	12 ceased	advmod
12	ceased	cease	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 became	conj
13	to	to	PART	_	14 weep	mark
14	weep	weep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 ceased	xcomp
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 began	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 began	cc
17	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 ceased	conj
18	to	to	PART	_	19 listen	mark
19	listen	listen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 began	xcomp
20	with	with	ADP	_	22 pleasure	case
21	secret	secret	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 pleasure	amod
22	pleasure	pleasure	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 listen	obl
23	to	to	ADP	_	25 words	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 words	det
25	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 listen	obl
26	of	of	ADP	_	29 lover	case
27	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 lover	nmod:poss
28	Arab	Arab	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 lover	amod
29	lover	lover	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 words	nmod
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 became	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	become	past	Abdalasis		daily property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
2	cease	past	Exilona		gradually property	vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
3	weep	to-infinitive	Exilona not said here			vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	begin	past	Exilona not said here			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
5	listen	to-infinitive	Exilona not said here		with secret pleasure; to the words of Exilona's Arab lover	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to word=Theme
6	word			Exilona's Arab lover		nom word «communication 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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Pragmatics

Legends of the conquest of Spain, Loves of Abdalasis and Exilona., sentence 31