Legends of the conquest of Spain, Fate of Abdalasis and Exilona.—death of Muza., sentence 45

The brutal eagerness to shed blood, which seems inherent in human nature, was awakened; and woe to the victims when that eagerness is quickened by religious hate!

Who acts: blood, religious hate · What happens: shed, seem, awaken, quicken · To what, where: blood, brutal eagerness, eagerness

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 (blood, religious hate), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 eagerness	det
2	brutal	brutal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 eagerness	amod
3	eagerness	eagerness	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 awakened	nsubj:pass
4	to	to	PART	_	5 shed	mark
5	shed	shed	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 eagerness	acl
6	blood	blood	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 shed	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 seems	punct
8	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 seems	nsubj
9	seems	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 blood	acl:relcl
10	inherent	inherent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 seems	xcomp
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 nature	case
12	human	human	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 nature	amod
13	nature	nature	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 inherent	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 eagerness	punct
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 awakened	aux:pass
16	awakened	awaken	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 woe	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 woe	cc
19	woe	woe	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 awakened	obl
20	to	to	ADP	_	22 victims	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 victims	det
22	victims	victim	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 woe	nmod
23	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	27 quickened	advmod
24	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	25 eagerness	det
25	eagerness	eagerness	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 quickened	nsubj:pass
26	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 quickened	aux:pass
27	quickened	quicken	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 awakened	advcl
28	by	by	ADP	_	30 hate	case
29	religious	religious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 hate	amod
30	hate	hate	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 quickened	obl
31	!	!	PUNCT	_	16 awakened	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	shed	to-infinitive		blood		vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location blood=Source
2	seem	present	blood		inherent property	vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme
3	awaken	past · passive		the brutal eagerness	woe to the victims obl	vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme
4	quicken	present · passive	religious hate	that eagerness		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent subject=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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🌲 Legends of the conquest of Spain, Fate of Abdalasis and Exilona.—death of Muza., sentence 45

The tree

Pragmatics

Legends of the conquest of Spain, Fate of Abdalasis and Exilona.—death of Muza., sentence 45