Legends of the conquest of Spain, Skirmishing of the Armies.—pelistes and His Son.—pelistes and the Bishop., sentence 27
He called to his mind the various portents and prophecies which had forerun their present danger.
Who acts: Bishop · What happens: call, forerun, mind · To what, where: mind, various portents · 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 (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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 called | nsubj |
| 2 | called | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 mind | case |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 mind | nmod:poss |
| 5 | mind | mind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 called | obl |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 portents | det |
| 7 | various | various | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 portents | amod |
| 8 | portents | portent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 mind | nmod |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 prophecies | cc |
| 10 | prophecies | prophecy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 portents | conj |
| 11 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 forerun | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 forerun | aux |
| 13 | forerun | forerun | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 portents | acl:relcl |
| 14 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 danger | nmod:poss |
| 15 | present | present | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 danger | amod |
| 16 | danger | danger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 forerun | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 called | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call | past | Bishop | Bishop's mind the various portents and prophecies | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to mind=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | forerun | past · perfect · passive | the various portents and prophecies | prophecies's present danger obj | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | mind | Bishop | nom mind «cognition transitive»: 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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