Legends of the conquest of Spain, Of the Loves of Roderick and the Princess Elyata., sentence 33
The distress of the princess at her captivity was soothed by this gentle treatment.
Who acts: gentle treatment · What happens: soothe, distress · To what, where: distress, princess
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 (gentle treatment), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 distress | det |
| 2 | distress | distress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 soothed | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 princess | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 princess | det |
| 5 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 distress | nmod |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 captivity | case |
| 7 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 captivity | nmod:poss |
| 8 | captivity | captivity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 princess | nmod |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 soothed | aux:pass |
| 10 | soothed | soothe | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 11 | by | by | ADP | _ | 14 treatment | case |
| 12 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 14 treatment | det |
| 13 | gentle | gentle | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 treatment | amod |
| 14 | treatment | treatment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 soothed | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 soothed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | soothe | past · passive | this gentle treatment | the distress of the princess at Elyata's captivity | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus subject=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | distress | the princess at Elyata's captivity | nom distress «feeling 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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