Legends of the conquest of Spain, Chapter VIII., sentence 30

In concerting and executing this treacherous plot, it seemed as if his whole nature was changed; every lofty and generous sentiment was stifled, and he stooped to the meanest dissimulation.

Who acts: it, nature · What happens: concert, execute, seem, change, stifle, stoop · To what, where: treacherous plot, whole nature, lofty sentiment

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 (it, nature), 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	In	in	SCONJ	_	2 concerting	mark
2	concerting	concert	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 seemed	advcl
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 executing	cc
4	executing	execute	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 concerting	conj
5	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	7 plot	det
6	treacherous	treacherous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 plot	amod
7	plot	plot	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 executing	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 concerting	punct
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 seemed	nsubj
10	seemed	seem	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	as	as	SCONJ	_	17 changed	mark
12	if	if	SCONJ	_	17 changed	mark
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 nature	nmod:poss
14	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 nature	amod
15	nature	nature	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 changed	nsubj
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 changed	aux:pass
17	changed	change	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 seemed	xcomp
18	;	;	PUNCT	_	25 stifled	punct
19	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	23 sentiment	det
20	lofty	lofty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 sentiment	amod
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 generous	cc
22	generous	generous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 lofty	conj
23	sentiment	sentiment	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 stifled	nsubj:pass
24	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 stifled	aux:pass
25	stifled	stifle	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 seemed	conj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 stooped	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 stooped	cc
28	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 stooped	nsubj
29	stooped	stoop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 stifled	conj
30	to	to	ADP	_	33 dissimulation	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 dissimulation	det
32	meanest	mean	ADJ	Degree=Sup	33 dissimulation	amod
33	dissimulation	dissimulation	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 stooped	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 seemed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	concert	gerund				tree rules
2	execute	gerund		this treacherous plot		vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plot=Patient
3	seem	past	it			vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute
4	change a condition, not said to happen	past · passive		king's whole nature		vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
5	stifle	past · passive		every lofty sentiment		vn suffocate-40.7 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=Patient
6	stoop	past	nature		to the meanest dissimulation	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=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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🌲 Legends of the conquest of Spain, Chapter VIII., sentence 30

The tree

Pragmatics

Legends of the conquest of Spain, Chapter VIII., sentence 30