Legends of the conquest of Spain, Skirmishing of the Armies.—pelistes and His Son.—pelistes and the Bishop., sentence 19
The cavaliers and vassals of his father followed him with devoted zeal, and many of them paid for their loyalty with their lives.
Who acts: cavaliers, many · What happens: follow, pay · To what, where: Pelistes
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 (cavaliers, many), 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 cavaliers | det |
| 2 | cavaliers | cavalier | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 followed | nsubj |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 vassals | cc |
| 4 | vassals | vassal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 cavaliers | conj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 father | case |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 father | nmod:poss |
| 7 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 cavaliers | nmod |
| 8 | followed | follow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 followed | obj |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 zeal | case |
| 11 | devoted | devoted | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 zeal | amod |
| 12 | zeal | zeal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 followed | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 paid | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 paid | cc |
| 15 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 paid | nsubj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 them | case |
| 17 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 many | nmod |
| 18 | paid | pay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 followed | conj |
| 19 | for | for | ADP | _ | 21 loyalty | case |
| 20 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 loyalty | nmod:poss |
| 21 | loyalty | loyalty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 paid | obl |
| 22 | with | with | ADP | _ | 24 lives | case |
| 23 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 lives | nmod:poss |
| 24 | lives | life | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 paid | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 followed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | follow | past | the cavaliers of Pelistes's father and vassals | Pelistes | with devoted zeal | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | |||
| 2 | pay | past | many of cavaliers | for cavaliers's loyalty; with cavaliers's lives | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent for loyalty=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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