Legends of the conquest of Spain, Terror of the Country.—roderick Rouses Himself to Arms., sentence 6
“What tidings from the army?” demanded the king, as the panting messenger was brought into his presence.
Who acts: tidings · What happens: demand, bring · To what, where: king, panting messenger, presence
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 (tidings), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 demanded | punct |
| 2 | What | what | DET | PronType=Int | 3 tidings | det |
| 3 | tidings | tiding | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 demanded | nsubj |
| 4 | from | from | ADP | _ | 6 army | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 army | det |
| 6 | army | army | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 tidings | nmod |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 tidings | punct |
| 8 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 tidings | punct |
| 9 | demanded | demand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 king | det |
| 11 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 demanded | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 brought | punct |
| 13 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 18 brought | mark |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 messenger | det |
| 15 | panting | panting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 messenger | compound |
| 16 | messenger | messenger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 brought | nsubj:pass |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 brought | aux:pass |
| 18 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 demanded | conj |
| 19 | into | into | ADP | _ | 21 presence | case |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 presence | nmod:poss |
| 21 | presence | presence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 brought | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 demanded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | demand speech: request | past | what tidings from the army | the king | vn require-103-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme king=Precondition | ||||
| 2 | bring | past · passive | the panting messenger | king's presence | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme into presence=Destination |
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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