Legends of the conquest of Spain, Chapter XIV., sentence 24

The sentinel before the tent said, “I saw no one come forth, but it was as if a blast of wind passed by me, and there was a rustling as of dry leaves.”

Who acts: sentinel, one · What happens: say, see, come, pass, be, blast · To what, where: one, wind, rustling · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (sentinel, one), 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 sentinel	det
2	sentinel	sentinel	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 said	nsubj
3	before	before	ADP	_	5 tent	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 tent	det
5	tent	tent	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sentinel	nmod
6	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 saw	punct
8	“	"	PUNCT	_	10 saw	punct
9	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 saw	nsubj
10	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 said	ccomp
11	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	12 one	det
12	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 saw	obj
13	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 saw	xcomp
14	forth	forth	ADV	_	13 come	advmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 rustling	punct
16	but	but	CCONJ	_	33 rustling	cc
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 rustling	nsubj
18	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 rustling	cop
19	as	as	SCONJ	_	33 rustling	mark
20	if	if	SCONJ	_	33 rustling	mark
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 blast	det
22	blast	blast	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 rustling	nsubj
23	of	of	ADP	_	24 wind	case
24	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 blast	nmod
25	passed	pass	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 wind	acl
26	by	by	ADP	_	27 me	case
27	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	25 passed	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 was	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 was	cc
30	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	31 was	expl
31	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 rustling	cop
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 rustling	det
33	rustling	rustling	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 said	ccomp
34	as	as	ADP	ExtPos=ADP	37 leaves	case
35	of	of	ADP	_	34 as	fixed
36	dry	dry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 leaves	amod
37	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 rustling	nmod
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	33 rustling	punct
39	”	"	PUNCT	_	33 rustling	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the sentinel before the tent			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	see in a quote	past	the sentinel before the tent = sentinel	no one		tree rules
3	come in a quote	infinitive	no one not said here		forth property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	pass in a quote	participle		wind not said here	by the sentinel before the tent = sentinel	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme by i=Location
5	is a a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	past	sentinel	a rustling	as dry leaves; a blast of wind nsubj	tree rules
6	blast in a quote			wind		nom blast «act transitive»: of=patient

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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🌲 Legends of the conquest of Spain, Chapter XIV., sentence 24

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Legends of the conquest of Spain, Chapter XIV., sentence 24