Legends of the conquest of Spain, Chapter XIV., sentence 35
When the young man had risen to speak, his father had fixed his eyes upon him with a grave and stern demeanour, leaning upon a two-handed sword.
Who acts: young man, father · What happens: rise, speak, fix, lean, hand · To what, where: eyes, handed sword · 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 (young man, father), 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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 6 risen | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 man | det |
| 3 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 man | amod |
| 4 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 risen | nsubj |
| 5 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 risen | aux |
| 6 | risen | rise | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 speak | mark |
| 8 | speak | speak | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 risen | xcomp |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 fixed | punct |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 father | nmod:poss |
| 11 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 fixed | nsubj |
| 12 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 fixed | aux |
| 13 | fixed | fix | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 6 risen | advcl |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 15 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 fixed | obj |
| 16 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 17 him | case |
| 17 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 fixed | obl |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 grave | case |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 grave | det |
| 20 | grave | grave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 fixed | obl |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 demeanour | cc |
| 22 | stern | stern | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 demeanour | amod |
| 23 | demeanour | demeanour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 grave | conj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 leaning | punct |
| 25 | leaning | lean | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 fixed | advcl |
| 26 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 31 sword | case |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 31 sword | det |
| 28 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 30 handed | nummod |
| 29 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 28 two | punct |
| 30 | handed | hand | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 31 sword | amod |
| 31 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 leaning | obl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 risen | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rise | past · perfect | the young man | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | speak speech: other | to-infinitive | the young man not said here | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | fix | past · perfect | God's father | God's eyes | upon God; with a grave and stern demeanour | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent eye=Patient with grave=Co-Patient | |||
| 4 | lean | gerund | God's father not said here | a handed sword | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent upon sword=Location | ||||
| 5 | hand | participle | two nummod | vn send-11.1-1 «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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