Legends of the conquest of Spain, Chapter XI., sentence 27
Certainly it was a night of fearful suspense, and Moslem and Christian looked forward with doubt to the fortune of the coming day.
Who acts: chieftain · What happens: be, look, come · To what, where: night
This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Chapter XI.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (chieftain), 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 | Certainly | certainly | ADV | _ | 5 night | advmod |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 night | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 night | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 night | det |
| 5 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 looked | obl:unmarked |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 suspense | case |
| 7 | fearful | fearful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 suspense | amod |
| 8 | suspense | suspense | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 night | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 Moslem | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 Moslem | cc |
| 11 | Moslem | Moslem | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 looked | advcl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 Christian | cc |
| 13 | Christian | Christian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Moslem | conj |
| 14 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | forward | forward | ADV | _ | 14 looked | advmod |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 doubt | case |
| 17 | doubt | doubt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 looked | obl |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 fortune | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 fortune | det |
| 20 | fortune | fortune | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 looked | obl |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 day | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 day | det |
| 23 | coming | come | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 24 day | amod |
| 24 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 fortune | nmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 looked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | chieftain | a night | of fearful suspense; certainly property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | look | past | with doubt; to the fortune of the coming day; forward property | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to fortune=Theme | |||||
| 3 | come | gerund | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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