Legends of the conquest of Spain, Legend of Count Julian and His Family., sentence 143
Had the heart of the emir been capable of pity, it would have been touched by the tender youth and innocent beauty of the child; but his heart was as the nether millstone, and he was bent upon the destruction of the whole family of Julian.
Who acts: emir, tender youth, heart · What happens: have, be, touch, bend, destroy · To what, where: heart, God, destruction, whole family
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 (emir, tender youth, heart), 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 | Had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 heart | det |
| 3 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Had | obj |
| 4 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 8 capable | mark |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 capable | det |
| 6 | emir | emir | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 capable | nsubj |
| 7 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 8 capable | cop |
| 8 | capable | capable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 heart | acl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 pity | case |
| 10 | pity | pity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 capable | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 touched | punct |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 touched | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 touched | aux |
| 14 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 16 touched | aux |
| 15 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 16 touched | aux:pass |
| 16 | touched | touch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 capable | conj |
| 17 | by | by | ADP | _ | 20 youth | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 youth | det |
| 19 | tender | tender | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 youth | compound |
| 20 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 touched | obl |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 beauty | cc |
| 22 | innocent | innocent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 beauty | amod |
| 23 | beauty | beauty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 youth | conj |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 child | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 child | det |
| 26 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 beauty | nmod |
| 27 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 35 millstone | punct |
| 28 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 35 millstone | cc |
| 29 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 heart | nmod:poss |
| 30 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 millstone | nsubj |
| 31 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 35 millstone | cop |
| 32 | as | as | ADP | _ | 35 millstone | case |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 millstone | det |
| 34 | nether | nether | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 millstone | amod |
| 35 | millstone | millstone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Had | obl |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 bent | punct |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 bent | cc |
| 38 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 40 bent | nsubj:pass |
| 39 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 40 bent | aux:pass |
| 40 | bent | bend | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 35 millstone | conj |
| 41 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 43 destruction | case |
| 42 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 destruction | det |
| 43 | destruction | destruction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 bent | obl |
| 44 | of | of | ADP | _ | 47 family | case |
| 45 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 47 family | det |
| 46 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 47 family | amod |
| 47 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 destruction | nmod |
| 48 | of | of | ADP | _ | 49 Julian | case |
| 49 | Julian | Julian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 47 family | nmod |
| 50 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | the heart | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heart=Patient | |||||
| 2 | is | participle | emir | the heart not said here | of pity; capable property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | touch | would · perfect · passive | the tender youth and innocent beauty of the child | heart | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme subject=Co-Theme | ||||
| 4 | is | past | God's heart | as the nether millstone | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | bend | past · passive | God | the destruction of the whole family of Julian | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: subject=Theme upon destruction=Location | ||||
| 6 | destroy | the whole family of Julian | nom destruction «act 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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