Legends of the conquest of Spain, Legend of Count Julian and His Family., sentence 163
Her hair was dishevelled, her eyes were haggard with watching, and her cheek was as the monumental stone; but there were the remains of commanding beauty in her countenance; and the majesty of her presence awed even the rabble into respect.
Who acts: eyes, haggard, cheek, remains · What happens: dishevell, be, watch, command, awe · To what, where: hair, haggard, beauty, countenance, majesty, respect · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (eyes, haggard, cheek, remains), 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 | Her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 hair | nmod:poss |
| 2 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 dishevelled | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 dishevelled | aux:pass |
| 4 | dishevelled | dishevell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 haggard | punct |
| 6 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 7 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 haggard | nsubj |
| 8 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 haggard | cop |
| 9 | haggard | haggard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 dishevelled | conj |
| 10 | with | with | SCONJ | _ | 11 watching | mark |
| 11 | watching | watch | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 haggard | acl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 stone | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 stone | cc |
| 14 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 cheek | nmod:poss |
| 15 | cheek | cheek | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 stone | nsubj |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 stone | cop |
| 17 | as | as | ADP | _ | 20 stone | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 stone | det |
| 19 | monumental | monumental | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 stone | amod |
| 20 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 watching | obl |
| 21 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 24 were | punct |
| 22 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 24 were | cc |
| 23 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 24 were | expl |
| 24 | were | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 dishevelled | parataxis |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 remains | det |
| 26 | remains | remains | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 24 were | nsubj |
| 27 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 28 commanding | mark |
| 28 | commanding | command | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 26 remains | acl |
| 29 | beauty | beauty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 commanding | obj |
| 30 | in | in | ADP | _ | 32 countenance | case |
| 31 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 countenance | nmod:poss |
| 32 | countenance | countenance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 beauty | nmod |
| 33 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 40 awed | punct |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 awed | cc |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 majesty | det |
| 36 | majesty | majesty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 awed | nsubj:pass |
| 37 | of | of | ADP | _ | 39 presence | case |
| 38 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 39 presence | nmod:poss |
| 39 | presence | presence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 majesty | nmod |
| 40 | awed | awe | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 dishevelled | conj |
| 41 | even | even | ADV | _ | 43 rabble | advmod |
| 42 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 rabble | det |
| 43 | rabble | rabble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 awed | obj |
| 44 | into | into | ADP | _ | 45 respect | case |
| 45 | respect | respect | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 awed | obl |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 dishevelled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dishevell | past · passive | sea's hair | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | is a | past | sea's eyes | haggard | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | watch | gerund | haggard not said here | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | is | past | sea's cheek | as the monumental stone | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | be | past | the remains | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 6 | command | gerund | the remains not said here | beauty | sea's countenance | vn supervision-95.2.2-1 «NP V NP.theme PP.predicate»: agent=Agent beauty=Theme in countenance=Eventuality | |||
| 7 | awe | participle · passive | the majesty of sea's presence | respect | the rabble obj | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Experiencer rabble=Result |
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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