Legends of the conquest of Spain, Skirmishing of the Armies.—pelistes and His Son.—pelistes and the Bishop., sentence 14
Beside him was his only son, who now for the first time was fleshing his sword in battle.
Who acts: force, only son · What happens: be, flesh · To what, where: sword, battle
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 (force, only son), 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 | Beside | beside | ADP | _ | 6 son | case |
| 2 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 son | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 son | cop |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 son | nmod:poss |
| 5 | only | only | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 son | amod |
| 6 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 fleshing | punct |
| 8 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 fleshing | nsubj |
| 9 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 15 fleshing | advmod |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 time | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 time | det |
| 12 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 13 time | amod |
| 13 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 fleshing | obl |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 fleshing | aux |
| 15 | fleshing | flesh | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 son | acl |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 sword | nmod:poss |
| 17 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 fleshing | obj |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 battle | case |
| 19 | battle | battle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 fleshing | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 son | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | force | beside force's only son | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | flesh | past · progressive | force's only son | force's sword | battle | now; time | tree rules |
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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