Legends of the conquest of Spain, Don Roderick Receives an Extraordinary Embassy., sentence 1
The heart of Don Roderick was not so depraved by sensuality, but that the wrong he had been guilty of toward the innocent Florinda, and the disgrace he had inflicted on her house, weighed heavy on his spirits, and a cloud began to gather on his once clear and unwrinkled brow.
Who acts: sensuality, wrong, disgrace, cloud · What happens: not deprave, be, inflict, weigh, begin, gather · To what, where: heart, disgrace, house, clear brow
This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Don Roderick Receives an Extraordinary Embassy.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sensuality, wrong, disgrace, cloud), 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 | 2 heart | det |
| 2 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 depraved | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 Don | case |
| 4 | Don | Don | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 heart | nmod |
| 5 | Roderick | Roderick | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Don | flat |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 depraved | aux |
| 7 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 depraved | advmod |
| 8 | so | so | ADV | _ | 9 depraved | advmod |
| 9 | depraved | deprave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 10 | by | by | ADP | _ | 11 sensuality | case |
| 11 | sensuality | sensuality | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 depraved | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 guilty | punct |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 20 guilty | cc |
| 14 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 20 guilty | mark |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 wrong | det |
| 16 | wrong | wrong | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 guilty | nsubj |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 guilty | nsubj |
| 18 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 guilty | aux |
| 19 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 20 guilty | cop |
| 20 | guilty | guilty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 depraved | parataxis |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 Florinda | case |
| 22 | toward | toward | ADP | _ | 25 Florinda | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 Florinda | det |
| 24 | innocent | innocent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 Florinda | amod |
| 25 | Florinda | Florinda | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 guilty | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 weighed | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 weighed | cc |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 disgrace | det |
| 29 | disgrace | disgrace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 weighed | nsubj |
| 30 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 inflicted | nsubj |
| 31 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 inflicted | aux |
| 32 | inflicted | inflict | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 29 disgrace | acl:relcl |
| 33 | on | on | ADP | _ | 35 house | case |
| 34 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 35 house | nmod:poss |
| 35 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 inflicted | obl |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 disgrace | punct |
| 37 | weighed | weigh | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 depraved | parataxis |
| 38 | heavy | heavy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 weighed | xcomp |
| 39 | on | on | ADP | _ | 41 spirits | case |
| 40 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 41 spirits | nmod:poss |
| 41 | spirits | spirit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 38 heavy | obl |
| 42 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 46 began | punct |
| 43 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 46 began | cc |
| 44 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 45 cloud | det |
| 45 | cloud | cloud | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 began | nsubj |
| 46 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 37 weighed | conj |
| 47 | to | to | PART | _ | 48 gather | mark |
| 48 | gather | gather | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 46 began | xcomp |
| 49 | on | on | ADP | _ | 55 brow | case |
| 50 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 55 brow | nmod:poss |
| 51 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 52 clear | advmod |
| 52 | clear | clear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 55 brow | amod |
| 53 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 54 unwrinkled | cc |
| 54 | unwrinkled | unwrinkl | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 52 clear | conj |
| 55 | brow | brow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 48 gather | obl |
| 56 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 depraved | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not deprave | past · passive | sensuality | the heart of Don | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | past · perfect | the wrong | of the innocent Florinda; Don nsubj; guilty property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | inflict | past · perfect | disgrace | the disgrace not said here | her house | tree rules | |||
| 4 | weigh | past | the disgrace | heavy property | vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | begin | past | a cloud | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 6 | gather | to-infinitive | a cloud not said here | disgrace's clear brow | vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 7 | unwrinkl | participle | a cloud not said here | 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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