Legends of the conquest of Spain, Battle of Calpe.—fate of Ataulpho., sentence 57
They supported him between them, and he prayed fervently for a short time, when, finding his strength declining, he beckoned the veteran to sit down beside him on the rock.
Who acts: soldiers, Prince, strength · What happens: support, pray, find, decline, beckon, sit down · To what, where: Prince, strength, veteran, rock
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 (soldiers, Prince, strength), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 supported | nsubj |
| 2 | supported | support | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 supported | obj |
| 4 | between | between | ADP | _ | 5 them | case |
| 5 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 supported | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 prayed | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 prayed | cc |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 prayed | nsubj |
| 9 | prayed | pray | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 supported | conj |
| 10 | fervently | fervently | ADV | _ | 9 prayed | advmod |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 time | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 time | det |
| 13 | short | short | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 time | amod |
| 14 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 prayed | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 finding | punct |
| 16 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 18 finding | advmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 finding | punct |
| 18 | finding | find | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 prayed | advcl |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 strength | nmod:poss |
| 20 | strength | strength | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 finding | obj |
| 21 | declining | decline | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 20 strength | acl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 beckoned | punct |
| 23 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 beckoned | nsubj |
| 24 | beckoned | beckon | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 supported | conj |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 veteran | det |
| 26 | veteran | veteran | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 beckoned | obj |
| 27 | to | to | PART | _ | 28 sit | mark |
| 28 | sit | sit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 beckoned | xcomp |
| 29 | down | down | ADP | _ | 28 sit | compound:prt |
| 30 | beside | beside | ADP | _ | 31 him | case |
| 31 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 sit | obl |
| 32 | on | on | ADP | _ | 34 rock | case |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 rock | det |
| 34 | rock | rock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 sit | obl |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 supported | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | support | past | soldiers = soldier | Prince | between knees = knee | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | pray | past | Prince | time | fervently property | vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot | |||
| 3 | find | gerund | Prince not said here | Prince's strength | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent strength=Topic | ||||
| 4 | decline | gerund | Prince's strength not said here | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||||
| 5 | beckon | past | Prince | the veteran | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | sit down | to-infinitive | Prince not said here | the rock | beside Prince | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent beside he=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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