Legends of the conquest of Spain, The Story of Florinda., sentence 25

A sportive contest arose among the maidens, as to the comparative beauty of the Spanish and Moorish forms; but the Mauritanian damsel revealed limbs of voluptuous symmetry that seemed to defy all rivalry.

Who acts: sportive contest, Mauritanian damsel, voluptuous symmetry · What happens: arise, reveal, seem, defy · To what, where: maidens, limbs, rivalry

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 (sportive contest, Mauritanian damsel, voluptuous symmetry), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 contest	det
2	sportive	sportive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 contest	amod
3	contest	contest	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 arose	nsubj
4	arose	arise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	among	among	ADP	_	7 maidens	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 maidens	det
7	maidens	maiden	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 arose	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 beauty	punct
9	as	as	ADP	ExtPos=ADP	13 beauty	case
10	to	to	ADP	_	9 as	fixed
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 beauty	det
12	comparative	comparative	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 beauty	amod
13	beauty	beauty	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 arose	obl
14	of	of	ADP	_	19 forms	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 forms	det
16	Spanish	Spanish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 forms	amod
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 Moorish	cc
18	Moorish	moorish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 Spanish	conj
19	forms	form	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 beauty	nmod
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 revealed	punct
21	but	but	CCONJ	_	25 revealed	cc
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 damsel	det
23	Mauritanian	mauritanian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 damsel	amod
24	damsel	damsel	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 revealed	nsubj
25	revealed	reveal	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 arose	conj
26	limbs	limb	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 revealed	obj
27	of	of	ADP	_	29 symmetry	case
28	voluptuous	voluptuous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 symmetry	amod
29	symmetry	symmetry	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 limbs	nmod
30	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	31 seemed	nsubj
31	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 symmetry	acl:relcl
32	to	to	PART	_	33 defy	mark
33	defy	defy	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 seemed	xcomp
34	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	35 rivalry	det
35	rivalry	rivalry	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 defy	obj
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 arose	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	arise	past	a sportive contest		the maidens	as the comparative beauty of the Spanish forms	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme among maiden=Location
2	reveal	past	the Mauritanian damsel	limbs of voluptuous symmetry			vn confess-37.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent limb=Topic
3	seem	past	voluptuous symmetry				vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
4	defy	to-infinitive	voluptuous symmetry not said here	all rivalry			tree rules

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 25

The tree

Pragmatics

Legends of the conquest of Spain, The Story of Florinda., sentence 25