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Legends of the conquest of Spain, Battle of Calpe.—fate of Ataulpho., sentence 52

The page sat at his head, and supported it on his knees; and the veteran stood at his feet, with his brow bent, and his eyes full of sorrow.

Who acts: page, veteran, brow · What happens: sit, support, stand, bend · To what, where: head, knees, feet

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 (page, veteran, brow), 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

detnsubjcasenmod:possoblpunctccconjobjcasenmod:possoblpunctccdetnsubjconjcasenmod:possoblpunctmarknmod:possnsubjconjpunctccnmod:possnsubjparataxiscaseoblpunctrootTheDETpageNOUNsatVERBatADPhisPRONheadNOUN,PUNCTandCCONJsupportedVERBitPRONonADPhisPRONkneesNOUN;PUNCTandCCONJtheDETveteranNOUNstoodVERBatADPhisPRONfeetNOUN,PUNCTwithSCONJhisPRONbrowNOUNbentVERB,PUNCTandCCONJhisPRONeyesNOUNfullADJofADPsorrowNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1ThetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art2 pagedet
2pagepageNOUNNumber=Sing3 satnsubj
3satsitVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
4atatADP_6 headcase
5hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs6 headnmod:poss
6headheadNOUNNumber=Sing3 satobl
7,,PUNCT_9 supportedpunct
8andandCCONJ_9 supportedcc
9supportedsupportVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin3 satconj
10ititPRONCase=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs9 supportedobj
11ononADP_13 kneescase
12hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs13 kneesnmod:poss
13kneeskneeNOUNNumber=Plur9 supportedobl
14;;PUNCT_18 stoodpunct
15andandCCONJ_18 stoodcc
16thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art17 veterandet
17veteranveteranNOUNNumber=Sing18 stoodnsubj
18stoodstandVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin3 satconj
19atatADP_21 feetcase
20hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs21 feetnmod:poss
21feetfootNOUNNumber=Plur18 stoodobl
22,,PUNCT_26 bentpunct
23withwithSCONJ_26 bentmark
24hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs25 brownmod:poss
25browbrowNOUNNumber=Sing26 bentnsubj
26bentbendVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin18 stoodconj
27,,PUNCT_31 fullpunct
28andandCCONJ_31 fullcc
29hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs30 eyesnmod:poss
30eyeseyeNOUNNumber=Plur31 fullnsubj
31fullfullADJDegree=Pos3 satparataxis
32ofofADP_33 sorrowcase
33sorrowsorrowNOUNNumber=Sing31 fullobl
34..PUNCT_3 satpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1sitpastthe pagePrince's headvn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at head=Location
2supportpastthe page not said hereheadPrince's kneesvn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus
3standpastthe veteranPrince's feetvn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at foot=Location
4bendpastPrince's browvn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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