Legends of the conquest of Spain, Loves of Abdalasis and Exilona., sentence 32
When, however, he sought to urge his passion, she recollected the light estimation in which her sex was held by the followers of Mahomet, and assumed a countenance grave and severe.
Who acts: Abdalasis, Exilona, followers · What happens: seek, urge, recollect, hold, assume, sex · To what, where: passion, light estimation, sex, countenance grave
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, followers), 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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 3 however | mark |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 however | punct |
| 3 | however | however | ADV | _ | 6 sought | advcl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 however | punct |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 sought | nsubj |
| 6 | sought | seek | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 urge | mark |
| 8 | urge | urge | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 sought | xcomp |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 passion | nmod:poss |
| 10 | passion | passion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 urge | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 recollected | punct |
| 12 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 recollected | nsubj |
| 13 | recollected | recollect | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 sought | conj |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 estimation | det |
| 15 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 estimation | compound |
| 16 | estimation | estimation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 recollected | obj |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 which | case |
| 18 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 held | obl |
| 19 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 sex | nmod:poss |
| 20 | sex | sex | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 held | nsubj:pass |
| 21 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 held | aux:pass |
| 22 | held | hold | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 estimation | acl:relcl |
| 23 | by | by | ADP | _ | 25 followers | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 followers | det |
| 25 | followers | follower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 held | obl |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 Mahomet | case |
| 27 | Mahomet | Mahomet | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 followers | nmod |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 assumed | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 assumed | cc |
| 30 | assumed | assume | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 sought | parataxis |
| 31 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 33 grave | det |
| 32 | countenance | countenance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 grave | compound |
| 33 | grave | grave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 assumed | obj |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 severe | cc |
| 35 | severe | severe | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 assumed | conj |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 sought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seek | past | Abdalasis | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | urge not said to happen | to-infinitive | Abdalasis not said here | Abdalasis's passion | vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent passion=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | recollect | past | Exilona | the light estimation | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent estimation=Theme | ||||
| 4 | hold | past · passive | the followers of Mahomet | Exilona's sex | the light estimation | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent subject=Theme in which=Location | |||
| 5 | assume | past | a countenance grave | vn adopt-93.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grave=Theme | |||||
| 6 | sex | Exilona | nom sex «act transitive»: poss=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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