Legends of the conquest of Spain, Skirmishing of the Armies.—pelistes and His Son.—pelistes and the Bishop., sentence 39
The king interposed between the jarring nobles, and rebuked the impetuosity of Pelistes, but at the same time rejected the counsel of the bishop.
Who acts: king · What happens: interpose, rebuke, reject · To what, where: king, impetuosity, counsel
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 (king), 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 king | det |
| 2 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 rebuked | nsubj |
| 3 | interposed | interpose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 king | acl |
| 4 | between | between | ADP | _ | 7 nobles | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 nobles | det |
| 6 | jarring | jarring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 nobles | compound |
| 7 | nobles | noble | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 interposed | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 rebuked | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 rebuked | cc |
| 10 | rebuked | rebuke | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 impetuosity | det |
| 12 | impetuosity | impetuosity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 rebuked | obj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 Pelistes | case |
| 14 | Pelistes | Pelistes | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 impetuosity | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 rejected | punct |
| 16 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 21 rejected | cc |
| 17 | at | at | ADP | _ | 20 time | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 time | det |
| 19 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 time | amod |
| 20 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 rejected | obl |
| 21 | rejected | reject | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 rebuked | conj |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 counsel | det |
| 23 | counsel | counsel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 rejected | obj |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 bishop | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 bishop | det |
| 26 | bishop | bishop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 counsel | nmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 rebuked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | interpose speech: other | participle | the king not said here | between the jarring nobles | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | rebuke | past | the king | the impetuosity of Pelistes | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent impetuosity=Theme | ||||
| 3 | reject | past | the king not said here | the counsel of the bishop | time | vn reject-77.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent counsel=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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