Legends of the conquest of Spain, Skirmishing of the Armies.—pelistes and His Son.—pelistes and the Bishop., sentence 24
The cavaliers surrounded the body and gave utterance to their grief; but the father restrained his agony, and looked on with the stern resignation of a soldier.
Who acts: cavaliers, father · What happens: surround, give, restrain, look on, resign · To what, where: body, utterance, grief, agony, soldier
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, father), 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 | 7 gave | nsubj |
| 3 | surrounded | surround | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 cavaliers | acl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 body | det |
| 5 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 surrounded | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 surrounded | cc |
| 7 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | utterance | utterance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 gave | obj |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 grief | case |
| 10 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 grief | nmod:poss |
| 11 | grief | grief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 gave | obl |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 restrained | punct |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 16 restrained | cc |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 father | det |
| 15 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 restrained | nsubj |
| 16 | restrained | restrain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 gave | parataxis |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 agony | nmod:poss |
| 18 | agony | agony | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 restrained | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 looked | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 looked | cc |
| 21 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 restrained | conj |
| 22 | on | on | ADP | _ | 21 looked | compound:prt |
| 23 | with | with | ADP | _ | 26 resignation | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 resignation | det |
| 25 | stern | stern | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 resignation | amod |
| 26 | resignation | resignation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 looked | obl |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 soldier | case |
| 28 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 soldier | det |
| 29 | soldier | soldier | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 resignation | nmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | surround | participle | the cavaliers not said here | the body | vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme body=Co-Theme | ||||
| 2 | give | past | the cavaliers | utterance | cavaliers's grief | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent utterance=Theme to grief=Recipient | |||
| 3 | restrain | past | the father | father's agony | vn discourage-64.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer agony=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | look on | past | the father not said here | with the stern resignation of a soldier | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | resign | a soldier | nom resignation «feeling transitive»: of=patient |
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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