Legends of the conquest of Spain, Of the Loves of Roderick and the Princess Elyata., sentence 34
She was of an age when sorrow cannot long hold sway over the heart.
Who acts: distress, sorrow · What happens: be, not hold · To what, where: sway, heart
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 (distress, sorrow), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 age | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 age | cop |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 age | case |
| 4 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 age | det |
| 5 | age | age | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 11 hold | advmod |
| 7 | sorrow | sorrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 hold | nsubj |
| 8 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 hold | aux |
| 9 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 hold | advmod |
| 10 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 11 hold | advmod |
| 11 | hold | hold | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 age | acl:relcl |
| 12 | sway | sway | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 hold | obj |
| 13 | over | over | ADP | _ | 15 heart | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 heart | det |
| 15 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 hold | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 age | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | distress | of a age | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not hold | can | sorrow | sway | the heart | long property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent sway=Theme over heart=Location |
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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