Legends of the conquest of Spain, Chapter XI., sentence 28
The Spanish sentinel walked his pensive round, listening occasionally to the vague sounds from the distant rock of Calpe, and eyeing it as the mariner eyes the thunder cloud, pregnant with terror and destruction.
Who acts: Spanish sentinel · What happens: walk, listen, eye · To what, where: pensive round, round
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 (Spanish sentinel), 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 | 3 sentinel | det |
| 2 | Spanish | Spanish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 sentinel | amod |
| 3 | sentinel | sentinel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 walked | nsubj |
| 4 | walked | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 round | nmod:poss |
| 6 | pensive | pensive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 round | amod |
| 7 | round | round | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 walked | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 listening | punct |
| 9 | listening | listen | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 walked | advcl |
| 10 | occasionally | occasionally | ADV | _ | 9 listening | advmod |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 sounds | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 sounds | det |
| 13 | vague | vague | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 sounds | amod |
| 14 | sounds | sound | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 listening | obl |
| 15 | from | from | ADP | _ | 18 rock | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 rock | det |
| 17 | distant | distant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 rock | amod |
| 18 | rock | rock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 sounds | nmod |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 Calpe | case |
| 20 | Calpe | Calpe | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 rock | nmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 eyeing | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 eyeing | cc |
| 23 | eyeing | eye | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 listening | conj |
| 24 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 eyeing | obj |
| 25 | as | as | ADP | _ | 28 eyes | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 eyes | det |
| 27 | mariner | mariner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 eyes | compound |
| 28 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 eyeing | obl |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 cloud | det |
| 30 | thunder | thunder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 cloud | compound |
| 31 | cloud | cloud | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 eyes | appos |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 pregnant | punct |
| 33 | pregnant | pregnant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 cloud | amod |
| 34 | with | with | ADP | _ | 35 terror | case |
| 35 | terror | terror | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 pregnant | obl |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 destruction | cc |
| 37 | destruction | destruction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 terror | conj |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 walked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | walk | past | the Spanish sentinel | sentinel's pensive round | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme round=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | listen | gerund | the Spanish sentinel not said here | to the vague sounds from the distant rock of Calpe; occasionally property | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to sound=Theme | ||||
| 3 | eye | gerund | the Spanish sentinel not said here | round | as the mariner eyes | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus |
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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