Legends of the conquest of Spain, The Story of Florinda., sentence 11

The mere love of female beauty had first enamoured him of Exilona; and the same passion, fostered by voluptuous idleness, now betrayed him into the commission of an act fatal to himself and Spain.

What happens: enamour, foster, betray, love · To what, where: mere love, same passion, charm, commission, female beauty

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: 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	3 love	det
2	mere	mere	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 love	amod
3	love	love	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 enamoured	nsubj:pass
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 beauty	case
5	female	female	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 beauty	amod
6	beauty	beauty	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 love	nmod
7	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 enamoured	aux
8	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	9 enamoured	advmod
9	enamoured	enamour	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
10	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 enamoured	obj
11	of	of	ADP	_	12 Exilona	case
12	Exilona	Exilona	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 enamoured	obl
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 passion	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 passion	cc
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 passion	det
16	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 passion	amod
17	passion	passion	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 enamoured	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 fostered	punct
19	fostered	foster	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 passion	acl
20	by	by	ADP	_	22 idleness	case
21	voluptuous	voluptuous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 idleness	amod
22	idleness	idleness	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 fostered	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 betrayed	punct
24	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	25 betrayed	advmod
25	betrayed	betray	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 enamoured	parataxis
26	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 betrayed	obj
27	into	into	ADP	_	29 commission	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 commission	det
29	commission	commission	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 betrayed	obl
30	of	of	ADP	_	32 act	case
31	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 act	det
32	act	act	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 commission	nmod
33	fatal	fatal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 act	amod
34	to	to	ADP	_	35 himself	case
35	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	33 fatal	obl
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 Spain	cc
37	Spain	Spain	PROPN	Number=Sing	33 fatal	conj
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 enamoured	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	enamour	past · perfect · passive	the mere love of female beauty			of Exilona; the same passion obl; charm obj; first property	tree rules
2	foster	participle	the same passion not said here			by voluptuous idleness	tree rules
3	betray	past	charm	the commission of a act	now		tree rules
4	love		female beauty				nom love «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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🌲 Legends of the conquest of Spain, The Story of Florinda., sentence 11

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Legends of the conquest of Spain, The Story of Florinda., sentence 11