Legends of the conquest of Spain, Chapter XIV., sentence 29
Among them was a veteran noble named Pelistes.
Who acts: men · What happens: be, name · To what, where: veteran noble
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 (men), 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 | Among | among | ADP | _ | 6 noble | case |
| 2 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 noble | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 noble | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 noble | det |
| 5 | veteran | veteran | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 noble | amod |
| 6 | noble | noble | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | named | name | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 noble | acl |
| 8 | Pelistes | Pelistes | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 named | xcomp |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 noble | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | men = man | among a veteran noble | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | name | participle | a veteran noble not said here | Pelistes xcomp | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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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