Legends of the conquest of Spain, Don Roderick Receives an Extraordinary Embassy., sentence 5
Their snowy beards descended to their breasts, and their gray hairs were bound with ivy.
Who acts: snowy beards · What happens: descend, bind · To what, where: breasts, gray hairs
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 (snowy beards), 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 | Their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 beards | nmod:poss |
| 2 | snowy | snowy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 beards | amod |
| 3 | beards | beard | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 descended | nsubj |
| 4 | descended | descend | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 breasts | case |
| 6 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 breasts | nmod:poss |
| 7 | breasts | breast | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 descended | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 bound | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 bound | cc |
| 10 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 hairs | nmod:poss |
| 11 | gray | gray | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 hairs | compound |
| 12 | hairs | hair | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 bound | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 bound | aux:pass |
| 14 | bound | bind | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 descended | conj |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 ivy | case |
| 16 | ivy | ivy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 bound | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 descended | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | descend | participle | men's snowy beards | men's breasts | vn meander-47.7-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to breast=Location | ||||
| 2 | bind | past · passive | men's gray hairs | with ivy | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP PP»: subject=Patient with ivy=Co-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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