Legends of the conquest of Spain, Terror of the Country.—roderick Rouses Himself to Arms., sentence 3
When they related the tale of their defeat, old men shook their heads and groaned, and the women uttered cries and lamentations.
Who acts: inhabitants, old men, women, defeat · What happens: relate, shake, groan, utter, tell, defeat · To what, where: tale, heads, cries · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (inhabitants, old men, women, defeat), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 related | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 related | nsubj |
| 3 | related | relate | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 shook | advcl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 tale | det |
| 5 | tale | tale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 related | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 defeat | case |
| 7 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 defeat | nmod:poss |
| 8 | defeat | defeat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 tale | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 related | punct |
| 10 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 men | amod |
| 11 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 shook | nsubj |
| 12 | shook | shake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 heads | nmod:poss |
| 14 | heads | head | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 shook | obj |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 groaned | cc |
| 16 | groaned | groan | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 shook | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 uttered | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 uttered | cc |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 women | det |
| 20 | women | woman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 uttered | nsubj |
| 21 | uttered | utter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 shook | conj |
| 22 | cries | cry | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 uttered | obj |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 lamentations | cc |
| 24 | lamentations | lamentation | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 cries | conj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 shook | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | relate | past | inhabitants = inhabitant | the tale of inhabitants's defeat | vn involve-107.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tale=Theme | ||||
| 2 | shake | past | old men | inhabitants's heads | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent head=Patient | ||||
| 3 | groan | past | old men not said here | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | utter speech: other | past | the women | cries and lamentations | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent cry=Topic | ||||
| 5 | tell | inhabitants's defeat | nom tale «communication intransitive»: of=agent | ||||||
| 6 | defeat | inhabitants = inhabitant | nom defeat «event transitive»: 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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