Legends of the conquest of Spain, Chapter VIII., sentence 53
In this he was aided by his brother-in-law, Oppas, the bishop of Seville: a man dark and perfidious as the night, but devout in demeanour, and smoothly plausible in council.
Who acts: brother · What happens: aid · To what, where: this
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 (brother), 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 | ADP | _ | 2 this | case |
| 2 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 aided | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 aided | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 aided | aux:pass |
| 5 | aided | aid | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | by | by | ADP | _ | 8 brother | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 brother | nmod:poss |
| 8 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 aided | obl |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 law | punct |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 law | case |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 in | punct |
| 12 | law | law | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 brother | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 Oppas | punct |
| 14 | Oppas | Oppas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 brother | appos |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 bishop | punct |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 bishop | det |
| 17 | bishop | bishop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 Oppas | appos |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 Seville | case |
| 19 | Seville | Seville | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 bishop | nmod |
| 20 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 23 dark | punct |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 man | det |
| 22 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 dark | nsubj |
| 23 | dark | dark | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 aided | parataxis |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 perfidious | cc |
| 25 | perfidious | perfidious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 dark | conj |
| 26 | as | as | ADP | _ | 28 night | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 night | det |
| 28 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 perfidious | obl |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 devout | punct |
| 30 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 31 devout | cc |
| 31 | devout | devout | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 dark | conj |
| 32 | in | in | ADP | _ | 33 demeanour | case |
| 33 | demeanour | demeanour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 devout | obl |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 plausible | punct |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 plausible | cc |
| 36 | smoothly | smoothly | ADV | _ | 37 plausible | advmod |
| 37 | plausible | plausible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 dark | conj |
| 38 | in | in | ADP | _ | 39 council | case |
| 39 | council | council | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 plausible | obl |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 aided | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | aid | past · passive | domain's brother and law | this | domain nsubj | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Beneficiary |
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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