Legends of the conquest of Spain, Battle of Calpe.—fate of Ataulpho., sentence 38
At sight of this new adversary, fire flashed from the eyes of the prince, for Tenderos had been brought up in his father’s palace.
Who acts: fire · What happens: flash, bring up, sight · To what, where: sight, Tenderos, palace, new adversary
This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Battle of Calpe.—fate of Ataulpho.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fire), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 sight | case |
| 2 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 flashed | obl |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 adversary | case |
| 4 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 adversary | det |
| 5 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 adversary | amod |
| 6 | adversary | adversary | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 sight | nmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 sight | punct |
| 8 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 flashed | nsubj |
| 9 | flashed | flash | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | from | from | ADP | _ | 12 eyes | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 eyes | det |
| 12 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 flashed | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 prince | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 prince | det |
| 15 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 eyes | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 brought | punct |
| 17 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 21 brought | mark |
| 18 | Tenderos | Tenderos | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 brought | nsubj:pass |
| 19 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 brought | aux |
| 20 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 21 brought | aux:pass |
| 21 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 flashed | conj |
| 22 | up | up | ADP | _ | 21 brought | compound:prt |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 palace | case |
| 24 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 father | nmod:poss |
| 25 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 palace | nmod:poss |
| 26 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 25 father | case |
| 27 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 brought | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 flashed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | flash | past | fire | sight of this new adversary | from the eyes of the prince | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at sight=Location | |||
| 2 | bring up | past · perfect · passive | Tenderos | Tenderos's father's palace | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 3 | sight | this new adversary | nom sight «cognition 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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