Legends of the conquest of Spain, Terror of the Country.—roderick Rouses Himself to Arms., sentence 22
Among the first who appeared to hail the arrival of the king at Cordova, was the Bishop Oppas, the secret partisan of the traitor Julian.
Who acts: king · What happens: appear, hail, be, arrive · To what, where: arrival, Bishop Oppas
This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Terror of the Country.—roderick Rouses Himself to Arms.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king), 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 | Among | among | ADP | _ | 3 first | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 first | det |
| 3 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | root | root |
| 4 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 appeared | nsubj |
| 5 | appeared | appear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 first | acl:relcl |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 hail | mark |
| 7 | hail | hail | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 appeared | xcomp |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 arrival | det |
| 9 | arrival | arrival | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 hail | obj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 king | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 king | det |
| 12 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 arrival | nmod |
| 13 | at | at | ADP | _ | 14 Cordova | case |
| 14 | Cordova | Cordova | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 king | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 Oppas | punct |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 Oppas | cop |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 Oppas | det |
| 18 | Bishop | Bishop | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 Oppas | compound |
| 19 | Oppas | Oppas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 appeared | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 partisan | punct |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 partisan | det |
| 22 | secret | secret | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 partisan | amod |
| 23 | partisan | partisan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 Oppas | appos |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 traitor | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 traitor | det |
| 26 | traitor | traitor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 partisan | nmod |
| 27 | Julian | Julian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 traitor | appos |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 first | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | appear | past | who nsubj | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | |||||
| 2 | hail | to-infinitive | the arrival of the king at Cordova | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent arrival=Theme | |||||
| 3 | is a | past | the Bishop Oppas | the secret partisan of the traitor appos | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | arrive | the king at Cordova | nom arrival «act intransitive»: of=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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