Legends of the conquest of Spain, The Story of Florinda., sentence 9
The hardy and heroic qualities which had conducted him to the throne, were softened in the lap of indulgence.
What happens: conduct, soften · To what, where: hardy qualities, lap
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: 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 qualities | det |
| 2 | hardy | hardy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 qualities | amod |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 heroic | cc |
| 4 | heroic | heroic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 hardy | conj |
| 5 | qualities | quality | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 softened | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 conducted | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 conducted | aux |
| 8 | conducted | conduct | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 qualities | acl:relcl |
| 9 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 conducted | obj |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 throne | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 throne | det |
| 12 | throne | throne | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 conducted | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 qualities | punct |
| 14 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 softened | aux:pass |
| 15 | softened | soften | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 lap | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 lap | det |
| 18 | lap | lap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 softened | obl |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 indulgence | case |
| 20 | indulgence | indulgence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 lap | nmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 softened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | conduct | past · perfect · passive | the hardy qualities | to the throne; charm obj | vn conduct-111.1 «NP V NP PP»: subject=Theme he=Beneficiary | ||||
| 2 | soften | past · passive | the hardy qualities | the lap of indulgence | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient |
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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