Legends of the conquest of Spain, Fate of Abdalasis and Exilona.—death of Muza., sentence 37
Hither he was accustomed to retire from the tumult of the court, and to pass his time among groves and fountains, and the sweet repose of gardens, in the society of Exilona.
Who acts: gardens · What happens: accustom, retire, pass, repose · To what, where: Abdalasis, tumult, groves
This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Fate of Abdalasis and Exilona.—death of Muza.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (gardens), 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 | Hither | hither | ADV | _ | 4 accustomed | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 accustomed | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 accustomed | aux:pass |
| 4 | accustomed | accustom | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 retire | mark |
| 6 | retire | retire | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 accustomed | xcomp |
| 7 | from | from | ADP | _ | 9 tumult | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 tumult | det |
| 9 | tumult | tumult | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 retire | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 court | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 court | det |
| 12 | court | court | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 tumult | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 pass | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 pass | cc |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 pass | mark |
| 16 | pass | pass | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 retire | conj |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 time | nmod:poss |
| 18 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 pass | obj |
| 19 | among | among | ADP | _ | 20 groves | case |
| 20 | groves | grove | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 pass | obl |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 fountains | cc |
| 22 | fountains | fountain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 groves | conj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 repose | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 repose | cc |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 repose | det |
| 26 | sweet | sweet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 repose | amod |
| 27 | repose | repose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 accustomed | parataxis |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 gardens | case |
| 29 | gardens | garden | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 repose | nmod |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 society | punct |
| 31 | in | in | ADP | _ | 33 society | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 society | det |
| 33 | society | society | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 repose | conj |
| 34 | of | of | ADP | _ | 35 Exilona | case |
| 35 | Exilona | Exilona | PROPN | Number=Sing | 33 society | nmod |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 accustomed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | accustom | past · passive | Abdalasis | the sweet repose of gardens and the society of Exilona parataxis; hither property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | retire | to-infinitive | the tumult of the court | vn resign-10.11-1 «NP V PP.source»: agent=Agent from tumult=Source | |||||
| 3 | pass | to-infinitive | groves and fountains | time | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme among grove=Location | ||||
| 4 | repose | gardens | nom repose «act 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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