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Legends of the conquest of Spain, Chapter VIII., sentence 35

The king loaded him with favours; seeking to appease his own conscience by heaping honours upon the father in atonement of the deadly wrong inflicted upon his child.

Who acts: king · What happens: load, seek, appease, heap, inflict · To what, where: treason, own conscience, honours, atonement

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 (king), 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

detnsubjobjcaseoblpunctadvclmarkxcompnmod:possamodobjmarkadvclobjcasedetoblcaseoblmarkdetamodapposcsubjcasenmod:possoblpunctrootTheDETkingNOUNloadedVERBhimPRONwithADPfavoursNOUN;PUNCTseekingVERBtoPARTappeaseVERBhisPRONownADJconscienceNOUNbySCONJheapingVERBhonoursNOUNuponADPtheDETfatherNOUNinADPatonementNOUNofSCONJtheDETdeadlyADJwrongADJinflictedVERBuponADPhisPRONchildNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1ThetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art2 kingdet
2kingkingNOUNNumber=Sing3 loadednsubj
3loadedloadVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
4himhePRONCase=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs3 loadedobj
5withwithADP_6 favourscase
6favoursfavourNOUNNumber=Plur3 loadedobl
7;;PUNCT_8 seekingpunct
8seekingseekVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part3 loadedadvcl
9totoPART_10 appeasemark
10appeaseappeaseVERBVerbForm=Inf8 seekingxcomp
11hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs13 consciencenmod:poss
12ownownADJDegree=Pos13 conscienceamod
13conscienceconscienceNOUNNumber=Sing10 appeaseobj
14bybySCONJ_15 heapingmark
15heapingheapVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part10 appeaseadvcl
16honourshonourNOUNNumber=Plur15 heapingobj
17uponuponADP_19 fathercase
18thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art19 fatherdet
19fatherfatherNOUNNumber=Sing15 heapingobl
20ininADP_21 atonementcase
21atonementatonementNOUNNumber=Sing15 heapingobl
22ofofSCONJ_25 wrongmark
23thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art25 wrongdet
24deadlydeadlyADJDegree=Pos25 wrongamod
25wrongwrongADJDegree=Pos21 atonementappos
26inflictedinflictVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass25 wrongcsubj
27uponuponADP_29 childcase
28hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs29 childnmod:poss
29childchildNOUNNumber=Sing26 inflictedobl
30..PUNCT_3 loadedpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1loadpastthe kingtreasonwith favoursvn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent he=Destination with favour=Theme
2seekgerundthe king not said heretree rules
3appease not said to happento-infinitivethe king not said heretreason's own consciencevn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus conscience=Experiencer
4heapgerundthe king not said herehonoursatonementupon the fathervn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent honour=Theme upon father=Destination
5inflictparticipleupon treason's childtree 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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