Legends of the conquest of Spain, Legend of Count Julian and His Family., sentence 128

The search throughout the chapel, however, was equally vain, and the soldiers were about to depart, when Yuza remarked a slight gleam of joy in the eye of the countess.

Who acts: search, soldiers, Yuza · What happens: be, depart, remark · To what, where: slight gleam, eye

This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Legend of Count Julian and His Family.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (search, soldiers, Yuza), 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 search	det
2	search	search	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 vain	nsubj
3	throughout	throughout	ADP	_	5 chapel	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 chapel	det
5	chapel	chapel	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 search	nmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 search	punct
7	however	however	ADV	_	11 vain	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 however	punct
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 vain	cop
10	equally	equally	ADV	_	11 vain	advmod
11	vain	vain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 about	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 about	cc
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 soldiers	det
15	soldiers	soldier	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 about	nsubj
16	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 about	cop
17	about	about	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 vain	conj
18	to	to	PART	_	19 depart	mark
19	depart	depart	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 about	xcomp
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 remarked	punct
21	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	23 remarked	advmod
22	Yuza	Yuza	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 remarked	nsubj
23	remarked	remark	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 vain	conj
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 gleam	det
25	slight	slight	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 gleam	amod
26	gleam	gleam	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 remarked	obj
27	of	of	ADP	_	28 joy	case
28	joy	joy	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 gleam	nmod
29	in	in	ADP	_	31 eye	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 eye	det
31	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 remarked	obl
32	of	of	ADP	_	34 countess	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 countess	det
34	countess	countess	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 eye	nmod
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 vain	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	the search throughout the chapel			equally, however, vain property	tree rules
2	is	past	the soldiers			about property	tree rules
3	depart	to-infinitive	the soldiers not said here				vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	remark speech: assert	past	Yuza	a slight gleam of joy	the eye of the countess		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent gleam=Topic

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, Legend of Count Julian and His Family., sentence 128

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Legends of the conquest of Spain, Legend of Count Julian and His Family., sentence 128