Legends of the conquest of Spain, Chapter XIV., sentence 31
Pelistes had brought with him to the camp his only son, who had never drawn a sword except in tourney.
What happens: bring, not draw · To what, where: Pelistes, camp, only son
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: 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 | Pelistes | Pelistes | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 brought | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 brought | aux |
| 3 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 5 him | case |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 brought | obl |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 camp | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 camp | det |
| 8 | camp | camp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 brought | obl |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 son | nmod:poss |
| 10 | only | only | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 son | amod |
| 11 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 brought | parataxis |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 drawn | punct |
| 13 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 drawn | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 drawn | aux |
| 15 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 16 drawn | advmod |
| 16 | drawn | draw | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 son | acl:relcl |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 sword | det |
| 18 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 drawn | obj |
| 19 | except | except | ADP | _ | 21 tourney | case |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 tourney | case |
| 21 | tourney | tourney | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 sword | nmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 brought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring | past · perfect · passive | Pelistes | the camp | with latter; PELISTES's only son parataxis | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme to camp=Destination | |||
| 2 | not draw | past · perfect · passive | PELISTES's only son | a sword obj | vn create-26.4-1-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: subject=Beneficiary sword=Result |
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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