Legends of the conquest of Spain, Chapter XIV., sentence 23
The pilgrim ceased, and passed forth from the tent; certain of the cavaliers followed him to detain him, that they might converse further with him about these matters, but he was no where to be found.
Who acts: pilgrim, cavaliers · What happens: cease, pass, follow, detain, converse, find · To what, where: tent, pilgrim
This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Chapter XIV.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (pilgrim, cavaliers), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 pilgrim | det |
| 2 | pilgrim | pilgrim | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 ceased | nsubj |
| 3 | ceased | cease | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 passed | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 passed | cc |
| 6 | passed | pass | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 ceased | advcl |
| 7 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 6 passed | advmod |
| 8 | from | from | ADP | _ | 10 tent | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 tent | det |
| 10 | tent | tent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 passed | obl |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 certain | punct |
| 12 | certain | certain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 ceased | conj |
| 13 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 16 followed | mark |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 cavaliers | det |
| 15 | cavaliers | cavalier | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 followed | nsubj |
| 16 | followed | follow | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 certain | advcl |
| 17 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 followed | obj |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 detain | mark |
| 19 | detain | detain | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 followed | xcomp |
| 20 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 detain | obj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 converse | punct |
| 22 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 25 converse | mark |
| 23 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 converse | nsubj |
| 24 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 converse | aux |
| 25 | converse | converse | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 detain | conj |
| 26 | further | further | ADV | _ | 25 converse | advmod |
| 27 | with | with | ADP | _ | 28 him | case |
| 28 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 converse | obl |
| 29 | about | about | ADP | _ | 31 matters | case |
| 30 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 31 matters | det |
| 31 | matters | matter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 converse | obl |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 found | punct |
| 33 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 40 found | cc |
| 34 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 40 found | nsubj |
| 35 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 40 found | aux:pass |
| 36 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 37 where | det |
| 37 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 40 found | advmod |
| 38 | to | to | PART | _ | 40 found | mark |
| 39 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 40 found | aux:pass |
| 40 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 ceased | parataxis |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 ceased | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cease | past | the pilgrim | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | pass | participle | the pilgrim not said here | the tent | forth property | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from tent=Initial_Location | |||
| 3 | follow | past | the cavaliers | pilgrim | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | detain | to-infinitive | the cavaliers not said here | pilgrim | vn confine-92 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | ||||
| 5 | converse speech: other | might | cavaliers = cavalier | with pilgrim; about this matters; further property | vn chit_chat-37.6 «NP V PP.co-agent PP.topic»: agent=Agent with he=Co-Agent about matter=Topic | ||||
| 6 | find | past · passive | pilgrim | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic |
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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