Legends of the conquest of Spain, Legend of Count Julian and His Family., sentence 150
The breeze blew his curling locks from about his face, and his cheek glowed at the boundless prospect; for the tower was reared upon that lofty promontory on which Hercules founded one of his pillars.
Who acts: breeze, curling, cheek, Hercules · What happens: blow, lock, glow, rear, found, curl · To what, where: face, boundless prospect, tower, one, lofty promontory
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 (breeze, curling, cheek, Hercules), 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 breeze | det |
| 2 | breeze | breeze | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 blew | nsubj |
| 3 | blew | blow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 curling | nmod:poss |
| 5 | curling | curling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 locks | nsubj |
| 6 | locks | lock | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 blew | ccomp |
| 7 | from | from | ADP | _ | 10 face | case |
| 8 | about | about | ADV | _ | 10 face | advmod |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 face | nmod:poss |
| 10 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 locks | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 glowed | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 glowed | cc |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 cheek | nmod:poss |
| 14 | cheek | cheek | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 glowed | nsubj |
| 15 | glowed | glow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 blew | parataxis |
| 16 | at | at | ADP | _ | 19 prospect | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 prospect | det |
| 18 | boundless | boundless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 prospect | amod |
| 19 | prospect | prospect | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 glowed | obl |
| 20 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 25 reared | punct |
| 21 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 25 reared | mark |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 tower | det |
| 23 | tower | tower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 reared | nsubj:pass |
| 24 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 reared | aux:pass |
| 25 | reared | rear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 glowed | conj |
| 26 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 29 promontory | case |
| 27 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 29 promontory | det |
| 28 | lofty | lofty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 promontory | amod |
| 29 | promontory | promontory | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 reared | obl |
| 30 | on | on | ADP | _ | 31 which | case |
| 31 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 33 founded | obl |
| 32 | Hercules | Hercules | PROPN | Number=Sing | 33 founded | nsubj |
| 33 | founded | found | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 promontory | acl:relcl |
| 34 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 33 founded | obj |
| 35 | of | of | ADP | _ | 37 pillars | case |
| 36 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 37 pillars | nmod:poss |
| 37 | pillars | pillar | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 one | nmod |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 blew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | blow | past | the breeze | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | lock | present | breeze's curling | breeze's face | vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 3 | glow | past | breeze's cheek | the boundless prospect | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at prospect=Location | ||||
| 4 | rear | past · passive | the tower | upon that lofty promontory | vn rear-26.2.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 5 | found | past | Hercules | one of breeze's pillars | that lofty promontory | vn base-97.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent one=Theme on which=Source | |||
| 6 | curl | breeze | nom curling «act intransitive»: poss=agent |
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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