Legends of the conquest of Spain, Chapter XI., sentence 34

Scarce had I retired to my tent last night, when a man of a majestic and venerable presence stood before me.

Who acts: Scarce, I, man · What happens: have, retire, stand

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 (Scarce, I, man), 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	Scarce	Scarce	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 retired	nsubj
4	retired	retire	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 had	ccomp
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 tent	case
6	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 tent	nmod:poss
7	tent	tent	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 retired	obl
8	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 night	amod
9	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 retired	obl:unmarked
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 stood	punct
11	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	20 stood	advmod
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 man	det
13	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 stood	nsubj
14	of	of	ADP	_	19 presence	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 presence	det
16	majestic	majestic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 presence	amod
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 venerable	cc
18	venerable	venerable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 majestic	conj
19	presence	presence	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 man	nmod
20	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 had	conj
21	before	before	ADP	_	22 me	case
22	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 stood	obl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	Scarce			tree rules
2	retire	past	I	night	to my tent	vn resign-10.11-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	stand	past	a man of a majestic presence	before me		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent before i=Location

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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🌲 Legends of the conquest of Spain, Chapter XI., sentence 34

The tree

Pragmatics

Legends of the conquest of Spain, Chapter XI., sentence 34