Legends of the conquest of Spain, Skirmishing of the Armies.—pelistes and His Son.—pelistes and the Bishop., sentence 12
Among the most illustrious of the warriors who fought that day was Pelistes, the Gothic noble who had so sternly checked the tongue of the Bishop Oppas.
Who acts: warriors, day, Gothic noble · What happens: fight, be, have, check · To what, where: Pelistes, tongue
This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Skirmishing of the Armies.—pelistes and His Son.—pelistes and the Bishop.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (warriors, day, Gothic noble), 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 | _ | 4 illustrious | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 illustrious | det |
| 3 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 4 illustrious | advmod |
| 4 | illustrious | illustrious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 warriors | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 warriors | det |
| 7 | warriors | warrior | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 illustrious | obl |
| 8 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 fought | nsubj |
| 9 | fought | fight | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 warriors | acl:relcl |
| 10 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 11 day | det |
| 11 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 Pelistes | nsubj |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 Pelistes | cop |
| 13 | Pelistes | Pelistes | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 fought | parataxis |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 noble | punct |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 noble | det |
| 16 | Gothic | gothic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 noble | amod |
| 17 | noble | noble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 Pelistes | appos |
| 18 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 had | nsubj |
| 19 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 noble | acl:relcl |
| 20 | so | so | ADV | _ | 22 checked | advmod |
| 21 | sternly | sternly | ADV | _ | 22 checked | advmod |
| 22 | checked | check | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 had | advcl |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 tongue | det |
| 24 | tongue | tongue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 checked | obj |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 Oppas | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 Oppas | det |
| 27 | Bishop | Bishop | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 Oppas | compound |
| 28 | Oppas | Oppas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 tongue | nmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 illustrious | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fight | past | the warriors | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is a | past | that day | Pelistes | the Gothic noble appos | tree rules | |||
| 3 | have | past | the Gothic noble | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | check | past | the Gothic noble not said here | the tongue of the Bishop Oppas | sternly property | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tongue=Theme |
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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