Legends of the conquest of Spain, Skirmishing of the Armies.—pelistes and His Son.—pelistes and the Bishop., sentence 34
Upon hearing these words, Pelistes, who had stood in mournful silence, regarding the dead body of his son, burst forth with honest indignation.
Who acts: words · What happens: hear, stand, regard, burst · To what, where: words, mournful silence
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 (words), 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 | Upon | upon | SCONJ | _ | 2 hearing | mark |
| 2 | hearing | hear | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 23 burst | advcl |
| 3 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 4 words | det |
| 4 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 hearing | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 Pelistes | punct |
| 6 | Pelistes | Pelistes | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 words | appos |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 stood | punct |
| 8 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 stood | nsubj |
| 9 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 stood | aux |
| 10 | stood | stand | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 words | acl |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 silence | case |
| 12 | mournful | mournful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 silence | amod |
| 13 | silence | silence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 stood | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 regarding | punct |
| 15 | regarding | regard | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 18 body | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 body | det |
| 17 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 body | amod |
| 18 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 hearing | obl |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 son | case |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 son | nmod:poss |
| 21 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 body | nmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 hearing | punct |
| 23 | burst | burst | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 24 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 23 burst | advmod |
| 25 | with | with | ADP | _ | 27 indignation | case |
| 26 | honest | honest | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 indignation | amod |
| 27 | indignation | indignation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 burst | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 23 burst | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | gerund | this words | regard the dead body of body's son | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer word=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | stand | past · perfect | this words | mournful silence | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in silence=Location | ||||
| 3 | regard | gerund | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | burst | past | with honest indignation; forth property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=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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