Legends of the conquest of Spain, Terror of the Country.—roderick Rouses Himself to Arms., sentence 35
He mounted his war horse, Orelia, and rode among his troops assembled on that spacious plain, and wherever he appeared he was received with acclamations; for nothing so arouses the spirit of the soldier as to behold his sovereign in arms.
Who acts: king · What happens: mount, ride, assemble, appear, receive, arouse · To what, where: war horse, troops, spacious plain, king, spirit, sovereign
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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 mounted | nsubj |
| 2 | mounted | mount | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 horse | nmod:poss |
| 4 | war | war | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 horse | compound |
| 5 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 mounted | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 Orelia | punct |
| 7 | Orelia | Orelia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 horse | appos |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 rode | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 rode | cc |
| 10 | rode | ride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 mounted | conj |
| 11 | among | among | ADP | _ | 13 troops | case |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 troops | nmod:poss |
| 13 | troops | troops | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 10 rode | obl |
| 14 | assembled | assemble | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 troops | acl |
| 15 | on | on | ADP | _ | 18 plain | case |
| 16 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 18 plain | det |
| 17 | spacious | spacious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 plain | amod |
| 18 | plain | plain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 assembled | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 appeared | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 appeared | cc |
| 21 | wherever | wherever | ADV | PronType=Int | 23 appeared | advmod |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 appeared | nsubj |
| 23 | appeared | appear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 mounted | conj |
| 24 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 received | nsubj |
| 25 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 received | aux:pass |
| 26 | received | receive | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 23 appeared | acl:relcl |
| 27 | with | with | ADP | _ | 28 acclamations | case |
| 28 | acclamations | acclamation | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 received | obl |
| 29 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 33 arouses | punct |
| 30 | for | for | ADP | _ | 31 nothing | case |
| 31 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 33 arouses | obl |
| 32 | so | so | ADV | _ | 33 arouses | advmod |
| 33 | arouses | arouse | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 mounted | conj |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 spirit | det |
| 35 | spirit | spirit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 arouses | obj |
| 36 | of | of | ADP | _ | 38 soldier | case |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 soldier | det |
| 38 | soldier | soldier | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 spirit | nmod |
| 39 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 41 behold | mark |
| 40 | to | to | PART | _ | 41 behold | mark |
| 41 | behold | behold | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 33 arouses | advcl |
| 42 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 43 sovereign | nmod:poss |
| 43 | sovereign | sovereign | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 behold | obj |
| 44 | in | in | ADP | _ | 45 arms | case |
| 45 | arms | arm | NOUN | Number=Plur | 41 behold | obl |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 mounted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mount | past | king | king's war horse | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Patient | ||||
| 2 | ride | past | king not said here | among king's troops | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | assemble | participle | king's troops not said here | that spacious plain | vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | appear | past | king | wherever property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | receive | past · passive | king | with acclamations | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 6 | arouse | present | king not said here | the spirit of the soldier | for nothing | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus spirit=Experiencer | |||
| 7 | behold | to-infinitive | king not said here | king's sovereign | arms | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer sovereign=Stimulus |
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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