Legends of the conquest of Spain, Fate of Abdalasis and Exilona.—death of Muza., sentence 4
One day, when they were alone in the palace of Seville, and the heart of Abdalasis was given up to tenderness, she addressed him in fond yet timid accents.
Who acts: brows, Exilona · What happens: be, give up, address · To what, where: palace, heart, tenderness, Abdalasis, fond accents, One day
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 (brows, 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 day | nummod |
| 2 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 day | punct |
| 4 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 10 palace | advmod |
| 5 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 palace | nsubj |
| 6 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 palace | cop |
| 7 | alone | alone | ADV | _ | 10 palace | advmod |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 palace | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 palace | det |
| 10 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 day | nmod |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 Seville | case |
| 12 | Seville | Seville | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 palace | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 given | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 given | cc |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 heart | det |
| 16 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 given | nsubj:pass |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 Abdalasis | case |
| 18 | Abdalasis | Abdalasis | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 heart | nmod |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 given | aux:pass |
| 20 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 palace | conj |
| 21 | up | up | ADP | _ | 20 given | compound:prt |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 tenderness | case |
| 23 | tenderness | tenderness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 given | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 addressed | punct |
| 25 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 addressed | nsubj |
| 26 | addressed | address | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 given | advcl |
| 27 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 addressed | obj |
| 28 | in | in | ADP | _ | 32 accents | case |
| 29 | fond | fond | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 accents | amod |
| 30 | yet | yet | CCONJ | _ | 31 timid | cc |
| 31 | timid | timid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 fond | conj |
| 32 | accents | accent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 addressed | obl |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 day | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | brows = brow | the palace | of Seville; alone property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | give up | past · passive | the heart of Abdalasis | tenderness | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Theme to tenderness=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | address | past | Exilona | Abdalasis | fond accents | vn illustrate-25.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Destination |
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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