Legends of the conquest of Spain, The Story of Florinda., sentence 35
Being one evening in the garden where the queen was diverting herself with her damsels, and coming to the fountain where he had beheld the innocent maidens at their sport, he could no longer restrain the passion that raged within his breast.
Who acts: queen, heart, passion, damsels · What happens: be, divert, come, behold, restrain, rage · To what, where: one evening, garden, queen, fountain, innocent maidens, sport
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 (queen, heart, passion, damsels), 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 | Being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 evening | cop |
| 2 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 evening | nummod |
| 3 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 restrain | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 garden | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 garden | det |
| 6 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 evening | nmod |
| 7 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 11 diverting | advmod |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 queen | det |
| 9 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 diverting | nsubj |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 diverting | aux |
| 11 | diverting | divert | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 garden | acl:relcl |
| 12 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 11 diverting | obj |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 damsels | case |
| 14 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 damsels | nmod:poss |
| 15 | damsels | damsel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 diverting | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 coming | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 coming | cc |
| 18 | coming | come | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 diverting | conj |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 fountain | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 fountain | det |
| 21 | fountain | fountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 coming | obl |
| 22 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 25 beheld | advmod |
| 23 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 beheld | nsubj |
| 24 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 beheld | aux |
| 25 | beheld | behold | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 21 fountain | acl:relcl |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 maidens | det |
| 27 | innocent | innocent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 maidens | amod |
| 28 | maidens | maiden | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 beheld | obj |
| 29 | at | at | ADP | _ | 31 sport | case |
| 30 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 31 sport | nmod:poss |
| 31 | sport | sport | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 beheld | obl |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 evening | punct |
| 33 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 restrain | nsubj |
| 34 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 37 restrain | aux |
| 35 | no | no | ADV | _ | 36 longer | advmod |
| 36 | longer | long | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 37 restrain | advmod |
| 37 | restrain | restrain | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 passion | det |
| 39 | passion | passion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 restrain | obj |
| 40 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 41 raged | nsubj |
| 41 | raged | rage | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 39 passion | acl:relcl |
| 42 | within | within | ADP | _ | 44 breast | case |
| 43 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 44 breast | nmod:poss |
| 44 | breast | breast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 raged | obl |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 37 restrain | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | gerund | one evening | the garden | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | divert | past · progressive | the queen | queen | with queen's damsels | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus herself=Experiencer | |||
| 3 | come | gerund | the queen not said here | the fountain | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to fountain=Initial_Location | ||||
| 4 | behold | past · perfect | heart | the innocent maidens | damsels's sport | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer maiden=Stimulus | |||
| 5 | restrain | could | heart | the passion | long property | vn discourage-64.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer passion=Eventuality | |||
| 6 | rage | past | the passion | within heart's breast | vn entity_specific_modes_being-47.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 7 | sport | damsels = damsel | nom sport «act intransitive»: poss=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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