Legends of the conquest of Spain, Skirmishing of the Armies.—pelistes and His Son.—pelistes and the Bishop., sentence 18
In vain his father called to caution him; he was ever in the advance, and seemed unconscious of the perils that surrounded him.
Who acts: Pelistes, advance · What happens: call, caution, be, seem, surround · To what, where: vain father, Pelistes, advance, unconscious, perils · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Pelistes, advance), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 4 father | case |
| 2 | vain | vain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 father | amod |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 father | nmod:poss |
| 4 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 advance | obl |
| 5 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 father | acl |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 caution | mark |
| 7 | caution | caution | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 called | xcomp |
| 8 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 caution | obj |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 4 father | punct |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 advance | nsubj |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 advance | cop |
| 12 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 15 advance | advmod |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 advance | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 advance | det |
| 15 | advance | advance | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 seemed | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 seemed | cc |
| 18 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 advance | acl:relcl |
| 19 | unconscious | unconscious | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 seemed | obj |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 perils | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 perils | det |
| 22 | perils | peril | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 unconscious | nmod |
| 23 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 24 surrounded | nsubj:pass |
| 24 | surrounded | surround | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 perils | acl |
| 25 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 surrounded | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 advance | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call | participle | Pelistes's vain father not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | caution speech: other | to-infinitive | Pelistes | vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient | |||||
| 3 | is | past | Pelistes | the advance | ever | in Pelistes's vain father | tree rules | ||
| 4 | seem | past | the advance not said here | unconscious of the perils | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme unconscious=Attribute | ||||
| 5 | surround | participle · passive | the perils | Pelistes obj | 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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