Legends of the conquest of Spain, Chapter VIII., sentence 41
The populace hailed and blessed him as he passed, but his heart turned from them with loathing.
Who acts: populace, heart · What happens: hail, bless, pass, turn · To what, where: populace
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 (populace, heart), 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 populace | det |
| 2 | populace | populace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 hailed | nsubj |
| 3 | hailed | hail | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 blessed | cc |
| 5 | blessed | bless | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 hailed | conj |
| 6 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 blessed | obj |
| 7 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 9 passed | mark |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 passed | nsubj |
| 9 | passed | pass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 blessed | advcl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 turned | punct |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 turned | cc |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 heart | nmod:poss |
| 13 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 turned | nsubj |
| 14 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 hailed | conj |
| 15 | from | from | ADP | _ | 16 them | case |
| 16 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 turned | obl |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 loathing | case |
| 18 | loathing | loathing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 turned | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 hailed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hail | past | the populace | vn weather-57 «It V PP.theme» | |||||
| 2 | bless | past | the populace not said here | populace | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | ||||
| 3 | pass | past | populace | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | turn | past | populace's heart | from followers = follower; with loathing | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme from they=Trajectory |
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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