Legends of the conquest of Spain, Terror of the Country.—roderick Rouses Himself to Arms., sentence 5
Don Roderick was seated with his beauteous queen, Exilona, in the royal palace which crowned the rocky summit of Toledo, when the bearer of ill-tidings came galloping over the bridge of the Tagus.
Who acts: royal palace, bearer · What happens: seat, crown, come, gallop · To what, where: Don, rocky summit, bridge
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 (royal palace, bearer), 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 | Don | Don | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 seated | nsubj |
| 2 | Roderick | Roderick | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Don | flat |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 seated | aux:pass |
| 4 | seated | seat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 queen | case |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 queen | nmod:poss |
| 7 | beauteous | beauteous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 queen | amod |
| 8 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 seated | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 Exilona | punct |
| 10 | Exilona | Exilona | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 queen | appos |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 palace | punct |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 palace | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 palace | det |
| 14 | royal | royal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 palace | amod |
| 15 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 seated | parataxis |
| 16 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 crowned | nsubj |
| 17 | crowned | crown | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 palace | acl:relcl |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 summit | det |
| 19 | rocky | rocky | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 summit | amod |
| 20 | summit | summit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 crowned | obj |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 Toledo | case |
| 22 | Toledo | Toledo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 summit | nmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 came | punct |
| 24 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 31 came | advmod |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 bearer | det |
| 26 | bearer | bearer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 came | nsubj |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 tidings | case |
| 28 | ill | ill | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 tidings | amod |
| 29 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 28 ill | punct |
| 30 | tidings | tiding | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 bearer | nmod |
| 31 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 summit | acl:relcl |
| 32 | galloping | gallop | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 31 came | xcomp |
| 33 | over | over | ADP | _ | 35 bridge | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 bridge | det |
| 35 | bridge | bridge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 galloping | obl |
| 36 | of | of | ADP | _ | 38 Tagus | case |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 Tagus | det |
| 38 | Tagus | Tagus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 35 bridge | nmod |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 seated | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | seat | past · passive | Don | with Don's beauteous queen; the royal palace parataxis | vn fit-54.3 «NP.location V NP»: subject=Value | ||||
| 2 | crown | past | the royal palace | the rocky summit of Toledo | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent summit=Theme | ||||
| 3 | come | past | the bearer of ill tidings | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | gallop | gerund | the bearer of ill tidings not said here | the bridge of the Tagus | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over bridge=Trajectory |
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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