Legends of the conquest of Spain, The Story of Florinda., sentence 19

It was the high noontide of a summer day, when, in sultry Spain, the landscape trembles to the eye, and all nature seeks repose, except the grasshopper, that pipes his lulling note to the herdsman as he sleeps beneath the shade.

Who acts: casement, landscape, nature, that · What happens: be, tremble, seek, lull, note, sleep · To what, where: high noontide, sultry Spain, repose

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 (casement, landscape, nature, that), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 noontide	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 noontide	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 noontide	det
4	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 noontide	amod
5	noontide	noontide	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	of	of	ADP	_	9 day	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 day	det
8	summer	summer	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 day	compound
9	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 noontide	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 Spain	punct
11	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	15 Spain	advmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 Spain	punct
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 Spain	case
14	sultry	sultry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 Spain	amod
15	Spain	Spain	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 noontide	parataxis
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 trembles	punct
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 landscape	det
18	landscape	landscape	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 trembles	nsubj
19	trembles	tremble	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 Spain	acl:relcl
20	to	to	ADP	_	22 eye	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 eye	det
22	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 trembles	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 seeks	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 seeks	cc
25	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	26 nature	det
26	nature	nature	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 seeks	nsubj
27	seeks	seek	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 trembles	conj
28	repose	repose	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 seeks	obj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 grasshopper	punct
30	except	except	ADP	_	32 grasshopper	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 grasshopper	det
32	grasshopper	grasshopper	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 seeks	obl
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 note	punct
34	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	38 note	nsubj
35	pipes	pipe	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 note	nsubj
36	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	38 note	nmod:poss
37	lulling	lull	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	38 note	amod
38	note	note	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 grasshopper	conj
39	to	to	ADP	_	41 herdsman	case
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 herdsman	det
41	herdsman	herdsman	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 note	nmod
42	as	as	SCONJ	_	44 sleeps	mark
43	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	44 sleeps	nsubj
44	sleeps	sleep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 seeks	advcl
45	beneath	beneath	ADP	_	47 shade	case
46	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	47 shade	det
47	shade	shade	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 sleeps	obl
48	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 noontide	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	casement	the high noontide	day	sultry Spain parataxis	tree rules
2	tremble	present	the landscape	sultry Spain not said here		to the eye	vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location spain=Theme
3	seek	present	all nature	repose		except the grasshopper and nature's lulling note	vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent repose=Theme
4	lull	gerund					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
5	note		that			to the herdsman; pipes nsubj; nature nmod:poss	tree rules
6	sleep	present	landscape			beneath the shade	vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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 19

The tree

Pragmatics

Legends of the conquest of Spain, The Story of Florinda., sentence 19