Legends of the conquest of Spain, Of the Loves of Roderick and the Princess Elyata., sentence 32
Here the princess passed her time, with the female attendants who had accompanied her from Algiers; and no one but the king was permitted to visit her, who daily became more and more enamoured of his lovely captive, and sought, by tender assiduity, to gain her affections.
Who acts: princess · What happens: pass, accompany, permit, visit, become, enamour · To what, where: female attendants, Algiers, one, Elyata, affections
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 (princess), 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 | Here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 passed | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 princess | det |
| 3 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 passed | nsubj |
| 4 | passed | pass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 time | nmod:poss |
| 6 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 passed | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 accompanied | punct |
| 8 | with | with | SCONJ | _ | 14 accompanied | mark |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 attendants | det |
| 10 | female | female | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 attendants | amod |
| 11 | attendants | attendant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 accompanied | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 accompanied | nsubj |
| 13 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 accompanied | aux |
| 14 | accompanied | accompany | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 passed | conj |
| 15 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 accompanied | obj |
| 16 | from | from | ADP | _ | 17 Algiers | case |
| 17 | Algiers | Algiers | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 accompanied | obl |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 26 permitted | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 permitted | cc |
| 20 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 21 one | det |
| 21 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 permitted | nsubj:pass |
| 22 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 24 king | cc |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 king | det |
| 24 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 one | conj |
| 25 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 permitted | aux:pass |
| 26 | permitted | permit | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 passed | parataxis |
| 27 | to | to | PART | _ | 28 visit | mark |
| 28 | visit | visit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 permitted | xcomp |
| 29 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 visit | obj |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 became | punct |
| 31 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 33 became | nsubj |
| 32 | daily | daily | ADV | _ | 33 became | advmod |
| 33 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 passed | parataxis |
| 34 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 37 enamoured | advmod |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 enamoured | cc |
| 36 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 37 enamoured | advmod |
| 37 | enamoured | enamour | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 33 became | xcomp |
| 38 | of | of | ADP | _ | 41 captive | case |
| 39 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 41 captive | nmod:poss |
| 40 | lovely | lovely | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 41 captive | amod |
| 41 | captive | captive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 enamoured | obl |
| 42 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 sought | punct |
| 43 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 44 sought | cc |
| 44 | sought | seek | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 33 became | conj |
| 45 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 48 assiduity | punct |
| 46 | by | by | ADP | _ | 48 assiduity | case |
| 47 | tender | tender | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 48 assiduity | amod |
| 48 | assiduity | assiduity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 sought | obl |
| 49 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 51 gain | punct |
| 50 | to | to | PART | _ | 51 gain | mark |
| 51 | gain | gain | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 44 sought | parataxis |
| 52 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 53 affections | nmod:poss |
| 53 | affections | affection | NOUN | Number=Plur | 51 gain | obj |
| 54 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 passed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pass | past | the princess | here | time | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | accompany | past · perfect · passive | the female attendants | Algiers | who nsubj; Elyata obj | tree rules | |||
| 3 | permit | past · passive | no one but the king | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: subject=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | visit not said to happen | to-infinitive | Elyata | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Co-Agent | |||||
| 5 | become | past | who nsubj; daily property | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | enamour | participle | of Toledo's lovely captive | tree rules | |||||
| 7 | seek | participle | by tender assiduity | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent by assiduity=Location | |||||
| 8 | gain | to-infinitive | Elyata's affections | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent affection=Theme |
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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