Legends of the conquest of Spain, Chapter XIV., sentence 42
The words of Pelistes roused the spirits of many of the cavaliers; others, however, remained full of anxious foreboding, and when this fearful prophecy was rumoured about the camp, as it presently was by the emissaries of the bishop, it spread awe and dismay among the soldiery.
Who acts: words, others, prophecy · What happens: rouse, remain, rumour, be, spread, word · To what, where: spirits, fearful prophecy, awe, soldiery, Pelistes
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 (words, others, prophecy), 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 words | det |
| 2 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 roused | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 Pelistes | case |
| 4 | Pelistes | Pelistes | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 words | nmod |
| 5 | roused | rouse | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 spirits | det |
| 7 | spirits | spirit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 roused | obj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 cavaliers | case |
| 9 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 cavaliers | amod |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 cavaliers | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 cavaliers | det |
| 12 | cavaliers | cavalier | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 spirits | nmod |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 remained | punct |
| 14 | others | other | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 remained | nsubj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 others | punct |
| 16 | however | however | ADV | _ | 18 remained | advmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 however | punct |
| 18 | remained | remain | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 roused | conj |
| 19 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 remained | xcomp |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 foreboding | case |
| 21 | anxious | anxious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 foreboding | amod |
| 22 | foreboding | foreboding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 full | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 rumoured | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 rumoured | cc |
| 25 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 30 rumoured | advmod |
| 26 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 28 prophecy | det |
| 27 | fearful | fearful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 prophecy | amod |
| 28 | prophecy | prophecy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 rumoured | nsubj:pass |
| 29 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 rumoured | aux:pass |
| 30 | rumoured | rumour | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 roused | parataxis |
| 31 | about | about | ADP | _ | 33 camp | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 camp | det |
| 33 | camp | camp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 rumoured | obl |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 emissaries | punct |
| 35 | as | as | ADP | _ | 41 emissaries | case |
| 36 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 41 emissaries | nsubj |
| 37 | presently | presently | ADV | _ | 41 emissaries | advmod |
| 38 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 41 emissaries | cop |
| 39 | by | by | ADP | _ | 41 emissaries | case |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 emissaries | det |
| 41 | emissaries | emissary | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 rumoured | conj |
| 42 | of | of | ADP | _ | 44 bishop | case |
| 43 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 44 bishop | det |
| 44 | bishop | bishop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 emissaries | nmod |
| 45 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 47 spread | punct |
| 46 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 47 spread | nsubj |
| 47 | spread | spread | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 roused | conj |
| 48 | awe | awe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 47 spread | obj |
| 49 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 50 dismay | cc |
| 50 | dismay | dismay | NOUN | Number=Sing | 48 awe | conj |
| 51 | among | among | ADP | _ | 53 soldiery | case |
| 52 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 53 soldiery | det |
| 53 | soldiery | soldiery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 47 spread | obl |
| 54 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 roused | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rouse | past | the words of Pelistes | the spirits of the many cavaliers | vn stimulate-59.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spirit=Patient | ||||
| 2 | remain | participle | others | full, however property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | rumour | past · passive | this fearful prophecy | about the camp | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | is | past | prophecy | as the emissaries; of the bishop; presently property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | spread | past | prophecy | awe and dismay | the soldiery | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent awe=Theme among soldiery=Destination | |||
| 6 | word | Pelistes | nom word «communication 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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