Legends of the conquest of Spain, Skirmishing of the Armies.—pelistes and His Son.—pelistes and the Bishop., sentence 26
The crafty bishop Oppas marked the internal trouble of the king, and thought a favourable moment had arrived to sway him to his purpose.
Who acts: crafty bishop, Bishop · What happens: mark, think, arrive, sway, trouble, purpose · To what, where: internal trouble, favourable moment, Bishop, king · 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 (crafty bishop, Bishop), 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 | 3 bishop | det |
| 2 | crafty | crafty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 bishop | amod |
| 3 | bishop | bishop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 marked | nsubj |
| 4 | Oppas | Oppas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 bishop | appos |
| 5 | marked | mark | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 trouble | det |
| 7 | internal | internal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 trouble | amod |
| 8 | trouble | trouble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 marked | obj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 king | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 king | det |
| 11 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 trouble | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 thought | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 thought | cc |
| 14 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 marked | conj |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 moment | det |
| 16 | favourable | favourable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 moment | amod |
| 17 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 arrived | nsubj:pass |
| 18 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 arrived | aux |
| 19 | arrived | arrive | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 thought | ccomp |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 sway | mark |
| 21 | sway | sway | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 arrived | xcomp |
| 22 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 sway | obj |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 25 purpose | case |
| 24 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 purpose | nmod:poss |
| 25 | purpose | purpose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 sway | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 marked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mark | past | the crafty bishop | the internal trouble of the king | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent trouble=Destination | ||||
| 2 | think speech: other | past | the crafty bishop not said here | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | arrive | past · perfect · passive | a favourable moment | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | sway | to-infinitive | Bishop | to Bishop's purpose | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location he=Theme | ||||
| 5 | trouble | the king | nom trouble «cognition transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 6 | purpose | Bishop | nom purpose «cognition intransitive»: poss=agent |
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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