Legends of the conquest of Spain, The Story of Florinda., sentence 31
She awoke in time, however, to escape from their busy hands; but enough of her charms had been revealed to convince the monarch that they were not to be rivalled by the rarest beauties of Mauritania.
Who acts: contest, rarest beauties · What happens: awake, escape, reveal, convince, not rivall · To what, where: busy hands, monarch, companions
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 (contest, rarest beauties), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 awoke | nsubj |
| 2 | awoke | awake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 time | case |
| 4 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 awoke | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 however | punct |
| 6 | however | however | ADV | _ | 2 awoke | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 escape | punct |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 escape | mark |
| 9 | escape | escape | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 awoke | conj |
| 10 | from | from | ADP | _ | 13 hands | case |
| 11 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 hands | nmod:poss |
| 12 | busy | busy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 hands | amod |
| 13 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 escape | obl |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 revealed | punct |
| 15 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 22 revealed | cc |
| 16 | enough | enough | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 revealed | advcl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 charms | case |
| 18 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 charms | nmod:poss |
| 19 | charms | charm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 enough | obl |
| 20 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 revealed | aux |
| 21 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 22 revealed | aux:pass |
| 22 | revealed | reveal | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 awoke | parataxis |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 convince | mark |
| 24 | convince | convince | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 revealed | xcomp |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 monarch | det |
| 26 | monarch | monarch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 convince | obj |
| 27 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 33 rivalled | mark |
| 28 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 rivalled | nsubj |
| 29 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 33 rivalled | aux |
| 30 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 33 rivalled | advmod |
| 31 | to | to | PART | _ | 33 rivalled | mark |
| 32 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 33 rivalled | aux:pass |
| 33 | rivalled | rivall | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 24 convince | advcl |
| 34 | by | by | ADP | _ | 37 beauties | case |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 beauties | det |
| 36 | rarest | rare | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 37 beauties | amod |
| 37 | beauties | beauty | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 rivalled | obl |
| 38 | of | of | ADP | _ | 39 Mauritania | case |
| 39 | Mauritania | Mauritania | PROPN | Number=Sing | 37 beauties | nmod |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 awoke | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | awake | past | contest | time | however property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | escape | to-infinitive | contest not said here | companions's busy hands | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from hand=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | reveal | past · perfect · passive | vn characterize-29.2-1-2 «NP V what S_INF»: clause=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | convince | to-infinitive | the monarch | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus monarch=Experiencer | |||||
| 5 | not rivall | past · passive | the rarest beauties of Mauritania | companions = companion | 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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