Legends of the conquest of Spain, Fate of Abdalasis and Exilona.—death of Muza., sentence 59

His advanced age was not proof against these repeated blows, and this utter ruin of his late prosperous family; and he sank into his grave, sorrowing and broken-hearted.

Who acts: advanced age, veteran · What happens: not be, repeat, sink, sorrow, break, ruin · To what, where: proof, grave, late prosperous family

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 (advanced age, 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	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 age	nmod:poss
2	advanced	advanced	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 age	amod
3	age	age	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 proof	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 proof	cop
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 proof	advmod
6	proof	proof	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	against	against	ADP	_	10 blows	case
8	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	10 blows	det
9	repeated	repeat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 blows	amod
10	blows	blow	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 proof	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 ruin	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 ruin	cc
13	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	15 ruin	det
14	utter	utter	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 ruin	amod
15	ruin	ruin	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 proof	conj
16	of	of	ADP	_	20 family	case
17	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 family	nmod:poss
18	late	late	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 family	amod
19	prosperous	prosperous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 family	amod
20	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 ruin	nmod
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 sank	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 sank	cc
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 sank	nsubj
24	sank	sink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 proof	parataxis
25	into	into	ADP	_	27 grave	case
26	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 grave	nmod:poss
27	grave	grave	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 sank	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 sorrowing	punct
29	sorrowing	sorrow	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	24 sank	advcl
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 broken	cc
31	broken	break	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	29 sorrowing	conj
32	-	-	PUNCT	_	31 broken	punct
33	hearted	hearted	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 broken	xcomp
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 proof	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	not is a	past	veteran's advanced age	proof and this utter ruin of veteran's late prosperous family		against this repeated blows; this utter ruin of veteran's late prosperous family conj	tree rules
2	repeat	participle					vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
3	sink	past	veteran		veteran's grave		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
4	sorrow	gerund	veteran not said here				vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
5	break	participle	veteran not said here			hearted property	vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient
6	ruin			veteran's late prosperous family			nom ruin «state 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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🌲 Legends of the conquest of Spain, Fate of Abdalasis and Exilona.—death of Muza., sentence 59

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Pragmatics

Legends of the conquest of Spain, Fate of Abdalasis and Exilona.—death of Muza., sentence 59