Legends of the conquest of Spain, Battle of Calpe.—fate of Ataulpho., sentence 56
The prince felt that the hour of his death was at hand, and ordered that they should aid him to rise upon his knees.
Who acts: prince, death, soldiers · What happens: feel, be, order, aid, rise, die · To what, where: Prince, knees
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 (prince, death, soldiers), 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 | 2 prince | det |
| 2 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 felt | nsubj |
| 3 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | ADP | _ | 6 hour | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 hour | det |
| 6 | hour | hour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 felt | obl |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 hand | case |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 death | nmod:poss |
| 9 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 hand | nsubj |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 hand | cop |
| 11 | at | at | ADP | _ | 12 hand | case |
| 12 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 hour | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 ordered | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 ordered | cc |
| 15 | ordered | order | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 felt | advcl |
| 16 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 19 aid | mark |
| 17 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 aid | nsubj |
| 18 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 aid | aux |
| 19 | aid | aid | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 ordered | xcomp |
| 20 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 aid | obj |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 rise | mark |
| 22 | rise | rise | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 aid | xcomp |
| 23 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 25 knees | case |
| 24 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 knees | nmod:poss |
| 25 | knees | knee | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 rise | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 felt | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | feel | past | the prince | hour | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | is | past | Prince's death | of hand | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | order | past | the prince not said here | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | aid not said to happen | should | soldiers = soldier | Prince | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Beneficiary clause=Theme | ||||
| 5 | rise | to-infinitive | soldiers = soldier not said here | Prince's knees | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent upon knee=Location | ||||
| 6 | die | Prince | nom death «event intransitive»: poss=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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