Legends of the conquest of Spain, Chapter VIII., sentence 10
The Arab chieftain had been rendered confident by continual success, and thought nothing could resist his arms and the sacred standard of the prophet.
Who acts: continual success, nothing · What happens: render, think, resist · To what, where: Arab chieftain, arms · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Chapter VIII.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (continual success, nothing), 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 chieftain | det |
| 2 | Arab | Arab | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 chieftain | amod |
| 3 | chieftain | chieftain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 rendered | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 rendered | aux |
| 5 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 6 rendered | aux:pass |
| 6 | rendered | render | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | confident | confident | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 rendered | xcomp |
| 8 | by | by | ADP | _ | 10 success | case |
| 9 | continual | continual | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 success | amod |
| 10 | success | success | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 rendered | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 thought | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 thought | cc |
| 13 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 rendered | advcl |
| 14 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 16 resist | nsubj |
| 15 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 resist | aux |
| 16 | resist | resist | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 thought | ccomp |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 arms | nmod:poss |
| 18 | arms | arm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 resist | obj |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 standard | cc |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 standard | det |
| 21 | sacred | sacred | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 standard | amod |
| 22 | standard | standard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 arms | conj |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 prophet | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 prophet | det |
| 25 | prophet | prophet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 standard | nmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 rendered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | render | past · perfect · passive | continual success | the Arab chieftain | confident property | vn give-13.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme | |||
| 2 | think speech: other | past | continual success not said here | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | resist | could | nothing | Almagreb's arms and the sacred standard of the prophet | 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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