Legends of the conquest of Spain, Story of the Marvellous and Portentous Tower., sentence 21
The youthful cavaliers, however, were eager to pursue the adventure, and encouraged him in his rash curiosity.
Who acts: youthful cavaliers · What happens: be, pursue, encourage · To what, where: adventure, mystery, rash curiosity
This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Story of the Marvellous and Portentous Tower.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (youthful cavaliers), 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 | 3 cavaliers | det |
| 2 | youthful | youthful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 cavaliers | amod |
| 3 | cavaliers | cavalier | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 eager | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 cavaliers | punct |
| 5 | however | however | ADV | _ | 8 eager | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 however | punct |
| 7 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 eager | cop |
| 8 | eager | eager | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 pursue | mark |
| 10 | pursue | pursue | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 eager | xcomp |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 adventure | det |
| 12 | adventure | adventure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 pursue | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 encouraged | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 encouraged | cc |
| 15 | encouraged | encourage | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 eager | conj |
| 16 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 encouraged | obj |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 curiosity | case |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 curiosity | nmod:poss |
| 19 | rash | rash | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 curiosity | amod |
| 20 | curiosity | curiosity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 encouraged | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 eager | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the youthful cavaliers | eager, however property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | pursue | to-infinitive | the youthful cavaliers not said here | the adventure | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent adventure=Theme | ||||
| 3 | encourage | past | the youthful cavaliers not said here | mystery | mystery's rash curiosity | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
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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