Legends of the conquest of Spain, Fate of Abdalasis and Exilona.—death of Muza., sentence 55
The veteran recognised the features of his beloved son, and turned his face away with anguish.
Who acts: veteran · What happens: recognise, turn away, feature · To what, where: features, face, beloved son
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 (veteran), 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 | 2 veteran | det |
| 2 | veteran | veteran | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 recognised | nsubj |
| 3 | recognised | recognise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 features | det |
| 5 | features | feature | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 recognised | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 son | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 son | nmod:poss |
| 8 | beloved | beloved | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 son | amod |
| 9 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 features | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 turned | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 turned | cc |
| 12 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 recognised | conj |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 face | nmod:poss |
| 14 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 turned | obj |
| 15 | away | away | ADV | _ | 12 turned | advmod |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 anguish | case |
| 17 | anguish | anguish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 turned | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 recognised | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | recognise | past | the veteran | the features of veteran's beloved son | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer feature=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | turn away | past | the veteran not said here | veteran's face | with anguish; away property | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent face=Theme | |||
| 3 | feature | veteran's beloved son | nom feature «cognition transitive»: of=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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