Legends of the conquest of Spain, Battle of Calpe.—fate of Ataulpho., sentence 58
Continuing to kneel, he confessed himself to that ancient soldier; having no priest or friar to perform that office in this hour of extremity.
Who acts: Prince · What happens: continue, kneel, confess, have, perform · To what, where: Prince, ancient soldier, priest, office
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), 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 | Continuing | continue | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 confessed | advcl |
| 2 | to | to | PART | _ | 3 kneel | mark |
| 3 | kneel | kneel | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Continuing | xcomp |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Continuing | punct |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 confessed | nsubj |
| 6 | confessed | confess | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 6 confessed | obj |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 soldier | case |
| 9 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 11 soldier | det |
| 10 | ancient | ancient | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 soldier | amod |
| 11 | soldier | soldier | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 confessed | obl |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 having | punct |
| 13 | having | have | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 confessed | advcl |
| 14 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 15 priest | det |
| 15 | priest | priest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 having | obj |
| 16 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 17 friar | cc |
| 17 | friar | friar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 priest | conj |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 perform | mark |
| 19 | perform | perform | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 having | advcl |
| 20 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 21 office | det |
| 21 | office | office | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 perform | obj |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 hour | case |
| 23 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 24 hour | det |
| 24 | hour | hour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 perform | obl |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 extremity | case |
| 26 | extremity | extremity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 hour | nmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 confessed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | continue | gerund | Prince not said here | vn continue-55.3 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | kneel | to-infinitive | Prince not said here | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | confess | past | Prince | Prince | that ancient soldier | vn confess-37.10 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent himself=Topic to soldier=Recipient | |||
| 4 | have | gerund | Prince not said here | no priest or friar | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent priest=Patient | ||||
| 5 | perform | to-infinitive | Prince not said here | that office | hour | vn performance-26.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent office=Theme |
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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