Legends of the conquest of Spain, Of the Loves of Roderick and the Princess Elyata., sentence 36
Every day the remembrance of the paternal home grew less and less painful, and the king became more and more amiable in her eyes; and when, at length, he offered to share his heart and throne with her, she listened with downcast looks and kindling blushes, but with an air of resignation.
Who acts: remembrance, king, life, downcast · What happens: grow, become, offer, share, listen, look · To what, where: length, heart, blushes, paternal home
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 (remembrance, king, life, downcast), 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 | Every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 2 day | det |
| 2 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 grew | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 remembrance | det |
| 4 | remembrance | remembrance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 grew | nsubj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 home | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 home | det |
| 7 | paternal | paternal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 home | amod |
| 8 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 remembrance | nmod |
| 9 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | less | less | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 9 grew | advmod |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 painful | cc |
| 12 | less | less | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 13 painful | advmod |
| 13 | painful | painful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 less | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 became | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 became | cc |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 king | det |
| 17 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 became | nsubj |
| 18 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 grew | conj |
| 19 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 18 became | advmod |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 amiable | cc |
| 21 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 22 amiable | advmod |
| 22 | amiable | amiable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 became | xcomp |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 eyes | case |
| 24 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 25 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 amiable | obl |
| 26 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 34 offered | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 offered | cc |
| 28 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 34 offered | advmod |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 length | punct |
| 30 | at | at | ADP | _ | 31 length | case |
| 31 | length | length | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 offered | obl |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 length | punct |
| 33 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 offered | nsubj |
| 34 | offered | offer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 grew | conj |
| 35 | to | to | PART | _ | 36 share | mark |
| 36 | share | share | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 34 offered | xcomp |
| 37 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 38 heart | nmod:poss |
| 38 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 share | obj |
| 39 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 throne | cc |
| 40 | throne | throne | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 heart | conj |
| 41 | with | with | ADP | _ | 42 her | case |
| 42 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 share | obl |
| 43 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 45 listened | punct |
| 44 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 45 listened | nsubj |
| 45 | listened | listen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 34 offered | parataxis |
| 46 | with | with | SCONJ | _ | 48 looks | mark |
| 47 | downcast | downcast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 48 looks | nsubj |
| 48 | looks | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 45 listened | ccomp |
| 49 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 50 kindling | cc |
| 50 | kindling | kindle | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 48 looks | conj |
| 51 | blushes | blush | NOUN | Number=Plur | 50 kindling | obj |
| 52 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 56 air | punct |
| 53 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 56 air | cc |
| 54 | with | with | ADP | _ | 56 air | case |
| 55 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 56 air | det |
| 56 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 grew | obl |
| 57 | of | of | ADP | _ | 58 resignation | case |
| 58 | resignation | resignation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 56 air | nmod |
| 59 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 grew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow | past | the remembrance of the paternal home | day | with a air of resignation; less property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | become | past | the king | amiable property | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 3 | offer | past | life | length | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | share not said to happen | to-infinitive | life not said here | life's heart and throne | with remembrance | tree rules | |||
| 5 | listen | past | remembrance | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | look | present | downcast | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 7 | kindle | gerund | downcast not said here | blushes | vn engender-27.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition blush=Patient | ||||
| 8 | remember | the paternal home | nom remembrance «cognition 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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