Legends of the conquest of Spain, Don Roderick Receives an Extraordinary Embassy., sentence 18
The long white beard of this prelate bespoke his advanced age, and his overhanging eyebrows showed him a man full of wary counsel.
Who acts: long white beard, overhanging eyebrows · What happens: bespeak, overhang, show · To what, where: advanced age, man, Don
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 (long white beard, overhanging eyebrows), 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 | 4 beard | det |
| 2 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 beard | amod |
| 3 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 beard | amod |
| 4 | beard | beard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 bespoke | nsubj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 prelate | case |
| 6 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 prelate | det |
| 7 | prelate | prelate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 beard | nmod |
| 8 | bespoke | bespeak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 age | nmod:poss |
| 10 | advanced | advanced | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 age | amod |
| 11 | age | age | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 bespoke | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 showed | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 showed | cc |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 eyebrows | nmod:poss |
| 15 | overhanging | overhang | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 16 eyebrows | amod |
| 16 | eyebrows | eyebrow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 showed | nsubj |
| 17 | showed | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 bespoke | conj |
| 18 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 showed | iobj |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 man | det |
| 20 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 showed | obj |
| 21 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 man | amod |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 counsel | case |
| 23 | wary | wary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 counsel | amod |
| 24 | counsel | counsel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 full | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 bespoke | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bespeak | past | the long white beard of this prelate | Don's advanced age | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | overhang | gerund | vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | show | past | Don's overhanging eyebrows | a man | Don | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient man=Topic |
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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