Legends of the conquest of Spain, Of the Loves of Roderick and the Princess Elyata., sentence 2
There are divers accounts of the youthful beauty who first found favour in his eyes, and was elevated by him to the throne.
Who acts: divers accounts, youthful beauty, Roderick · What happens: be, find, elevate, account · To what, where: favour, eyes, throne, youthful beauty
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 (divers accounts, youthful beauty, Roderick), 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 are | expl |
| 2 | are | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | divers | diver | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 accounts | compound |
| 4 | accounts | account | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 are | nsubj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 beauty | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 beauty | det |
| 7 | youthful | youthful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 beauty | amod |
| 8 | beauty | beauty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 accounts | nmod |
| 9 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 found | nsubj |
| 10 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 11 found | advmod |
| 11 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 beauty | acl:relcl |
| 12 | favour | favour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 found | obj |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 eyes | case |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 15 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 favour | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 elevated | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 elevated | cc |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 elevated | aux:pass |
| 19 | elevated | elevate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 found | conj |
| 20 | by | by | ADP | _ | 21 him | case |
| 21 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 elevated | obl |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 throne | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 throne | det |
| 24 | throne | throne | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 elevated | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 are | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | does | present | divers accounts of the youthful beauty | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | find | past | the youthful beauty | favour | Roderick's eyes | first property | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent favour=Topic | ||
| 3 | elevate | past · passive | Roderick | the throne | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent to throne=Destination | ||||
| 4 | account | the youthful beauty | nom account «communication 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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