Legends of the conquest of Spain, Of the Loves of Roderick and the Princess Elyata., sentence 13
There were Moors of both sexes sumptuously arrayed, and adorned with precious jewels, bearing the demeanour of persons of lofty rank.
Who acts: Moors · What happens: be, array, adorn, bear · To what, where: demeanour
This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Of the Loves of Roderick and the Princess Elyata.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Moors), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 were | expl |
| 2 | were | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 arrayed | advcl |
| 3 | Moors | moor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 arrayed | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 sexes | case |
| 5 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 6 sexes | det |
| 6 | sexes | sex | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 Moors | nmod |
| 7 | sumptuously | sumptuously | ADV | _ | 8 arrayed | advmod |
| 8 | arrayed | array | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 adorned | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 adorned | cc |
| 11 | adorned | adorn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 arrayed | conj |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 jewels | case |
| 13 | precious | precious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 jewels | amod |
| 14 | jewels | jewel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 adorned | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 bearing | punct |
| 16 | bearing | bear | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 adorned | advcl |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 demeanour | det |
| 18 | demeanour | demeanour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 bearing | obj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 persons | case |
| 20 | persons | person | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 demeanour | nmod |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 rank | case |
| 22 | lofty | lofty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 rank | amod |
| 23 | rank | rank | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 persons | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 arrayed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | Moors of both sexes not said here | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | array | past | Moors of both sexes | sumptuously property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | adorn | participle | Moors of both sexes not said here | with precious jewels | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with jewel=Theme | ||||
| 4 | bear | gerund | Moors of both sexes not said here | the demeanour of persons of lofty rank | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent demeanour=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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