Legends of the conquest of Spain, Chapter XIV., sentence 25
The cavaliers remained looking upon each other with astonishment.
Who acts: cavaliers · What happens: remain, look
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 (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 cavaliers | det |
| 2 | cavaliers | cavalier | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 remained | nsubj |
| 3 | remained | remain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | looking | look | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 remained | xcomp |
| 5 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 6 each | case |
| 6 | each | each | DET | ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp | 4 looking | obl |
| 7 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 each | fixed |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 astonishment | case |
| 9 | astonishment | astonishment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 looking | obl |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 remained | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | remain | past | the cavaliers | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | look | gerund | the cavaliers not said here | upon each; with astonishment | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent upon each=Theme |
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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