Legends of the conquest of Spain, Chapter VIII., sentence 19
The heart of Count Julian was lifted up, and his spirit swelled within him; but it was with noble and virtuous pride, for he was conscious of having merited the blessings of his country.
Who acts: spirit, heart, JULIAN · What happens: lift up, swell, be, have, merit, bless · To what, where: heart, merited blessings, country
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 (spirit, heart, JULIAN), 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 | 2 heart | det |
| 2 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 lifted | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 Julian | case |
| 4 | Count | Count | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Julian | compound |
| 5 | Julian | Julian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 heart | nmod |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 lifted | aux:pass |
| 7 | lifted | lift | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | up | up | ADP | _ | 7 lifted | compound:prt |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 swelled | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 swelled | cc |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 spirit | nmod:poss |
| 12 | spirit | spirit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 swelled | nsubj |
| 13 | swelled | swell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 lifted | conj |
| 14 | within | within | ADP | _ | 15 him | case |
| 15 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 swelled | obl |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 24 pride | punct |
| 17 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 24 pride | cc |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 pride | nsubj |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 pride | cop |
| 20 | with | with | ADP | _ | 24 pride | case |
| 21 | noble | noble | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 pride | amod |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 virtuous | cc |
| 23 | virtuous | virtuous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 noble | conj |
| 24 | pride | pride | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 lifted | conj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 conscious | punct |
| 26 | for | for | ADP | _ | 29 conscious | case |
| 27 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 conscious | nsubj |
| 28 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 conscious | cop |
| 29 | conscious | conscious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 lifted | conj |
| 30 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 31 having | mark |
| 31 | having | have | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 29 conscious | advcl |
| 32 | merited | merit | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 34 blessings | amod |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 blessings | det |
| 34 | blessings | blessing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 having | obj |
| 35 | of | of | ADP | _ | 37 country | case |
| 36 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 37 country | nmod:poss |
| 37 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 blessings | nmod |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 lifted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lift up | past · passive | the heart of Count Julian | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 2 | swell | past | JULIAN's spirit | within JULIAN | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||
| 3 | is | past | heart | with noble pride | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | is | past | JULIAN | conscious property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | have | gerund | JULIAN not said here | the merited blessings of JULIAN's country | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent blessing=Patient | ||||
| 6 | merit | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 7 | bless | JULIAN's country | nom blessing «act transitive»: of=patient |
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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