Legends of the conquest of Spain, The Story of Florinda., sentence 7

In this delicious abode, more befitting an oriental voluptuary than a Gothic king, Don Roderick was accustomed to while away much of that time which should have been devoted to the toilsome cares of government.

Who acts: government · What happens: befit, accustom, while away, devote, care · To what, where: oriental voluptuary, Don, delicious abode, much, time, toilsome cares

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 (government), 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	In	in	ADP	_	4 abode	case
2	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 abode	det
3	delicious	delicious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 abode	amod
4	abode	abode	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 accustomed	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 befitting	punct
6	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	7 befitting	advmod
7	befitting	befit	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 abode	conj
8	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 voluptuary	det
9	oriental	oriental	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 voluptuary	amod
10	voluptuary	voluptuary	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 befitting	obj
11	than	than	ADP	_	14 king	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 king	det
13	Gothic	gothic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 king	amod
14	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 voluptuary	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 abode	punct
16	Don	Don	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 accustomed	nsubj
17	Roderick	Roderick	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 Don	flat
18	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 accustomed	aux:pass
19	accustomed	accustom	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
20	to	to	PART	_	21 while	mark
21	while	while	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 accustomed	xcomp
22	away	away	ADV	_	21 while	advmod
23	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 while	obj
24	of	of	ADP	_	26 time	case
25	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	26 time	det
26	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 much	nmod
27	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	31 devoted	nsubj:pass
28	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 devoted	aux
29	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	31 devoted	aux
30	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	31 devoted	aux:pass
31	devoted	devote	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	26 time	acl:relcl
32	to	to	ADP	_	35 cares	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 cares	det
34	toilsome	toilsome	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 cares	amod
35	cares	care	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 devoted	obl
36	of	of	ADP	_	37 government	case
37	government	government	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 cares	nmod
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	19 accustomed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	befit	gerund		a oriental voluptuary		than a Gothic king	tree rules
2	accustom	past · passive		Don	this delicious abode		tree rules
3	while away	to-infinitive		much of that time		away property	tree rules
4	devote	should · perfect · passive		that time		to the toilsome cares of government goal	vn dedicate-79 «NP V NP S_ING»: subject=Theme to care=Goal
5	care		government				nom care «act intransitive»: of=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 7

The tree

Pragmatics

Legends of the conquest of Spain, The Story of Florinda., sentence 7