Legends of the conquest of Spain, Story of the Marvellous and Portentous Tower., sentence 4
None but light and inconsiderate minds,” continues the good friar, “do hastily reject the marvellous.
Who acts: None minds · What happens: continue, reject · To what, where: good friar, marvellous · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (None minds), 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 | None | none | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 minds | amod |
| 2 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 3 light | cc |
| 3 | light | light | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 None | conj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 inconsiderate | cc |
| 5 | inconsiderate | inconsiderate | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 None | conj |
| 6 | minds | mind | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 continues | nsubj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 minds | punct |
| 8 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 minds | punct |
| 9 | continues | continue | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 friar | det |
| 11 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 friar | amod |
| 12 | friar | friar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 continues | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 reject | punct |
| 14 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 reject | punct |
| 15 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 17 reject | aux |
| 16 | hastily | hastily | ADV | _ | 17 reject | advmod |
| 17 | reject | reject | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 9 continues | parataxis |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 marvellous | det |
| 19 | marvellous | marvellous | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 reject | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 continues | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | continue in a quote | present | None minds | the good friar | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | reject | infinitive · do-support | the marvellous | hastily property | vn reject-77.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent marvellous=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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