Legends of the conquest of Spain, Loves of Abdalasis and Exilona., sentence 5
Those of tender age were taught all graceful accomplishments; and even where tasks were imposed, they were of the most elegant and agreeable kind.
Who acts: Those · What happens: teach, impose, be · To what, where: graceful accomplishments, tasks
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 (Those), 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 | Those | that | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 26 kind | nsubj |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 age | case |
| 3 | tender | tender | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 age | amod |
| 4 | age | age | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Those | nmod |
| 5 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 taught | aux:pass |
| 6 | taught | teach | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 1 Those | acl:relcl |
| 7 | all | all | ADV | _ | 9 accomplishments | advmod |
| 8 | graceful | graceful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 accomplishments | amod |
| 9 | accomplishments | accomplishment | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 taught | obj |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 imposed | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 imposed | cc |
| 12 | even | even | ADV | _ | 16 imposed | advmod |
| 13 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 16 imposed | advmod |
| 14 | tasks | task | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 imposed | nsubj |
| 15 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 imposed | aux:pass |
| 16 | imposed | impose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 1 Those | appos |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Those | punct |
| 18 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 kind | nsubj |
| 19 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 kind | cop |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 kind | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 kind | det |
| 22 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 23 elegant | advmod |
| 23 | elegant | elegant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 kind | amod |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 agreeable | cc |
| 25 | agreeable | agreeable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 elegant | conj |
| 26 | kind | kind | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 26 kind | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | teach speech: other | past · passive | graceful accomplishments | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: accomplishment=Recipient | |||||
| 2 | impose | past · passive | tasks | vn enforce-63 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 3 | is | past | Those of tender age | of the elegant kind; tasks = task nsubj | 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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