Legends of the conquest of Spain, Chapter VIII., sentence 34
Concealing from King Roderick his knowledge of the outrage upon his house, he professed nothing but the most devoted loyalty and affection.
Who acts: treason · What happens: conceal, profess · To what, where: knowledge, nothing
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 (treason), 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 | Concealing | conceal | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 professed | advcl |
| 2 | from | from | ADP | _ | 3 King | case |
| 3 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Concealing | obl |
| 4 | Roderick | Roderick | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 King | flat |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 knowledge | nmod:poss |
| 6 | knowledge | knowledge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Concealing | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 outrage | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 outrage | det |
| 9 | outrage | outrage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 knowledge | nmod |
| 10 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 12 house | case |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 house | nmod:poss |
| 12 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Concealing | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Concealing | punct |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 professed | nsubj |
| 15 | professed | profess | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 15 professed | obj |
| 17 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 21 loyalty | cc |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 loyalty | det |
| 19 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 20 devoted | advmod |
| 20 | devoted | devoted | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 loyalty | amod |
| 21 | loyalty | loyalty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 nothing | conj |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 affection | cc |
| 23 | affection | affection | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 nothing | conj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 professed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | conceal | gerund | treason not said here | treason's knowledge of the outrage | from King; upon treason's house | vn concealment-16 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent knowledge=Patient from king=Beneficiary | |||
| 2 | profess | past | treason | nothing the devoted loyalty affection | vn declare-29.4-1-1-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent nothing=Theme |
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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