Legends of the conquest of Spain, The Story of Florinda., sentence 10
Surrounded by the pleasures of an idle and effeminate court, and beguiled by the example of his degenerate nobles, he gave way to a fatal sensuality that had lain dormant in his nature during the virtuous days of his adversity.
Who acts: charm, fatal sensuality · What happens: surround, beguile, give, lie, please, exemplify · To what, where: way, fatal sensuality, nature, idle court, degenerate nobles
This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, The Story of Florinda.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (charm, fatal sensuality), 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 | Surrounded | surround | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 2 | by | by | ADP | _ | 4 pleasures | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 pleasures | det |
| 4 | pleasures | pleasure | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Surrounded | obl:agent |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 court | case |
| 6 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 court | det |
| 7 | idle | idle | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 court | amod |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 effeminate | cc |
| 9 | effeminate | effeminate | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 idle | conj |
| 10 | court | court | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 pleasures | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 beguiled | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 beguiled | cc |
| 13 | beguiled | beguile | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 1 Surrounded | conj |
| 14 | by | by | ADP | _ | 16 example | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 example | det |
| 16 | example | example | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 beguiled | obl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 nobles | case |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 nobles | nmod:poss |
| 19 | degenerate | degenerate | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 nobles | amod |
| 20 | nobles | noble | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 example | nmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 gave | punct |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 gave | nsubj |
| 23 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 beguiled | conj |
| 24 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 gave | obj |
| 25 | to | to | ADP | _ | 28 sensuality | case |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 sensuality | det |
| 27 | fatal | fatal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 sensuality | amod |
| 28 | sensuality | sensuality | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 gave | obl |
| 29 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 31 lain | nsubj |
| 30 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 lain | aux |
| 31 | lain | lie | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 28 sensuality | acl:relcl |
| 32 | dormant | dormant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 lain | xcomp |
| 33 | in | in | ADP | _ | 35 nature | case |
| 34 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 35 nature | nmod:poss |
| 35 | nature | nature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 lain | obl |
| 36 | during | during | ADP | _ | 39 days | case |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 days | det |
| 38 | virtuous | virtuous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 days | amod |
| 39 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 lain | obl |
| 40 | of | of | ADP | _ | 42 adversity | case |
| 41 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 42 adversity | nmod:poss |
| 42 | adversity | adversity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 days | nmod |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Surrounded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | surround | participle | the pleasures of a idle court obl:agent | vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | beguile | participle | by the example of charm's degenerate nobles | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | give | past | charm | way | a fatal sensuality | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent way=Theme to sensuality=Recipient | |||
| 4 | lie | past · perfect | a fatal sensuality | charm's nature | day | dormant property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in nature=Location | ||
| 5 | please | a idle court | nom pleasure «feeling transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 6 | exemplify | charm's degenerate nobles | nom example «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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