Legends of the conquest of Spain, Story of the Marvellous and Portentous Tower., sentence 25

Still the locks were so numerous and difficult, that with all their eagerness and strength a great part of the day was exhausted before the whole of them could be mastered.

Who acts: you, locks, eagerness · What happens: still, be, exhaust, master · To what, where: great part

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 (you, locks, eagerness), 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	Still	still	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 locks	det
3	locks	lock	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 numerous	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 numerous	cop
5	so	so	ADV	_	6 numerous	advmod
6	numerous	numerous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Still	ccomp
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 difficult	cc
8	difficult	difficult	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 numerous	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 that	punct
10	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 numerous	obl
11	with	with	ADP	_	14 eagerness	case
12	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	14 eagerness	det:predet
13	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 eagerness	nmod:poss
14	eagerness	eagerness	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 that	nmod
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 strength	cc
16	strength	strength	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 eagerness	conj
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 part	det
18	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 part	amod
19	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 exhausted	nsubj:pass
20	of	of	ADP	_	22 day	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 day	det
22	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 part	nmod
23	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 exhausted	aux:pass
24	exhausted	exhaust	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 eagerness	acl:relcl
25	before	before	ADP	_	27 whole	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 whole	det
27	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 exhausted	xcomp
28	of	of	ADP	_	29 them	case
29	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 whole	obl
30	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 mastered	aux
31	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	32 mastered	aux:pass
32	mastered	master	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 Still	parataxis
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Still	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	still	imperative	you not said here			vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	the locks		that with locks's eagerness and strength obl; numerous property	tree rules
3	be		the locks not said here			tree rules
4	exhaust	past · passive	locks's eagerness and strength not said here	a great part of the day	whole property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer
5	master	could · passive				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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🌲 Legends of the conquest of Spain, Story of the Marvellous and Portentous Tower., sentence 25

The tree

Pragmatics

Legends of the conquest of Spain, Story of the Marvellous and Portentous Tower., sentence 25