Legends of the conquest of Spain, Of the Loves of Roderick and the Princess Elyata., sentence 14
Among them shone conspicuous a youthful beauty, magnificently attired, to whom all seemed to pay reverence.
What happens: shine, attire, seem, pay · To what, where: youthful beauty, reverence
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: 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 | Among | among | ADP | _ | 2 them | case |
| 2 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 shone | obl |
| 3 | shone | shine | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | conspicuous | conspicuous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 shone | xcomp |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 beauty | det |
| 6 | youthful | youthful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 beauty | amod |
| 7 | beauty | beauty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 shone | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 attired | punct |
| 9 | magnificently | magnificently | ADV | _ | 10 attired | advmod |
| 10 | attired | attire | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 shone | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 whom | punct |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 whom | case |
| 13 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 attired | obl |
| 14 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 15 seemed | advmod |
| 15 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 whom | acl:relcl |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 pay | mark |
| 17 | pay | pay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 seemed | xcomp |
| 18 | reverence | reverence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 pay | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 shone | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shine | past | a youthful beauty | among jewels = jewel; conspicuous property | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent beauty=Theme | ||||
| 2 | attire | participle | whom obl; magnificently property | vn dress-41.1.1-1-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | seem | past | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | ||||||
| 4 | pay | to-infinitive | reverence | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent reverence=Asset |
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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