Legends of the conquest of Spain, Chapter XIV., sentence 7
What grieved and incensed the spirits of the Christian warriors, however, was to behold, a little apart from the Moslem host, an encampment of Spanish cavaliers, with the banner of Count Julian waving above their tents.
Who acts: banner · What happens: grieve, incense, wave · To what, where: spirits, tents
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 (banner), 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 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 2 grieved | nsubj |
| 2 | grieved | grieve | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 incensed | cc |
| 4 | incensed | incense | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 grieved | conj |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 spirits | det |
| 6 | spirits | spirit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 incensed | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 warriors | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 warriors | det |
| 9 | Christian | Christian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 warriors | amod |
| 10 | warriors | warrior | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 spirits | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 however | punct |
| 12 | however | however | ADV | _ | 16 behold | advmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 however | punct |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 behold | cop |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 behold | case |
| 16 | behold | behold | INTJ | _ | 2 grieved | discourse |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 apart | punct |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 little | det |
| 19 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 apart | advmod |
| 20 | apart | apart | ADV | _ | 2 grieved | advmod |
| 21 | from | from | ADP | _ | 24 host | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 host | det |
| 23 | Moslem | Moslem | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 host | amod |
| 24 | host | host | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 apart | obl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 encampment | punct |
| 26 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 encampment | det |
| 27 | encampment | encampment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 host | appos |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 cavaliers | case |
| 29 | Spanish | Spanish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 cavaliers | amod |
| 30 | cavaliers | cavalier | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 encampment | nmod |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 banner | punct |
| 32 | with | with | ADP | _ | 34 banner | case |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 banner | det |
| 34 | banner | banner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 cavaliers | appos |
| 35 | of | of | ADP | _ | 37 Julian | case |
| 36 | Count | Count | PROPN | Number=Sing | 37 Julian | compound |
| 37 | Julian | Julian | PROPN | Number=Sing | 34 banner | nmod |
| 38 | waving | wave | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 34 banner | acl |
| 39 | above | above | ADP | _ | 41 tents | case |
| 40 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 41 tents | nmod:poss |
| 41 | tents | tent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 38 waving | obl |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 grieved | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grieve | past | What nsubj; apart property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP-PRO-ARB»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | incense | past | the spirits of the Christian warriors | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus spirit=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | wave | gerund | the banner of Count Julian not said here | cavaliers's tents | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme above tent=Location |
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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