Legends of the conquest of Spain, Opening, sentence 74
Defence of the Convent of St. George by Pelistes 198
What happens: defend · To what, where: Defence, Convent
This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Opening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | Defence | defence | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 Convent | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Convent | det |
| 4 | Convent | Convent | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Defence | nmod |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 George | case |
| 6 | St. | St. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 George | nmod:desc |
| 7 | George | George | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Convent | nmod |
| 8 | by | by | ADP | _ | 9 Pelistes | case |
| 9 | Pelistes | Pelistes | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 George | nmod |
| 10 | 198 | 198 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 7 George | list |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | defend | the Convent of George St. by Pelistes | nom defence «process transitive»: of=patient |
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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