Legends of the conquest of Spain, Story of the Marvellous and Portentous Tower., sentence 54
God has hidden them in mercy from our sight, and it is impious to rend the veil by which they are concealed.”
Who acts: it, veil, our · What happens: hide, be, rend, conceal, sight · To what, where: God, mercy, veil, decrees
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 (it, veil, our), 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 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 hidden | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 hidden | aux |
| 3 | hidden | hide | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 hidden | obj |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 mercy | case |
| 6 | mercy | mercy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 hidden | obl |
| 7 | from | from | ADP | _ | 9 sight | case |
| 8 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 sight | nmod:poss |
| 9 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 mercy | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 impious | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 impious | cc |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 impious | nsubj |
| 13 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 impious | cop |
| 14 | impious | impious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 hidden | conj |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 rend | mark |
| 16 | rend | rend | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 impious | csubj |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 veil | det |
| 18 | veil | veil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 rend | obj |
| 19 | by | by | ADP | _ | 20 which | case |
| 20 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 23 concealed | obl |
| 21 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 concealed | nsubj |
| 22 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 concealed | aux:pass |
| 23 | concealed | conceal | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 veil | acl:relcl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 impious | punct |
| 25 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 hidden | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hide | present · perfect · passive | God | mercy from our sight | decrees = decree obj | tree rules | |||
| 2 | is | present | it | impious property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | rend | to-infinitive | the veil | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent veil=Patient | |||||
| 4 | conceal | present · passive | the veil | decrees = decree | vn concealment-16 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient | ||||
| 5 | sight | our | nom sight «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |
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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