Legends of the conquest of Spain, Chapter VIII., sentence 27
His spirit was haughty in the extreme, but destitute of true magnanimity, and when once wounded turned to gall and venom.
Who acts: spirit · What happens: be, destitute, turn, gall · To what, where: extreme
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), 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 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 spirit | nmod:poss |
| 2 | spirit | spirit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 haughty | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 haughty | cop |
| 4 | haughty | haughty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 extreme | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 extreme | det |
| 7 | extreme | extreme | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 haughty | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 destitute | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 10 destitute | cc |
| 10 | destitute | destitute | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 haughty | parataxis |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 magnanimity | case |
| 12 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 magnanimity | amod |
| 13 | magnanimity | magnanimity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 destitute | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 turned | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 turned | cc |
| 16 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 18 wounded | advmod |
| 17 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 18 wounded | advmod |
| 18 | wounded | wound | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 turned | aux:pass |
| 19 | turned | turn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 haughty | conj |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 gall | mark |
| 21 | gall | gall | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 turned | xcomp |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 venom | cc |
| 23 | venom | venom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 gall | conj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 haughty | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | countenance's spirit | the extreme | haughty property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | destitute | present | of true magnanimity | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | turn | past · passive | countenance's spirit not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | gall | to-infinitive | countenance's spirit not said here | venom conj | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
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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