Legends of the conquest of Spain, Skirmishing of the Armies.—pelistes and His Son.—pelistes and the Bishop., sentence 41
He then held a council with his captains, and it was determined to offer the enemy general battle on the following day.
Who acts: invader, it · What happens: hold, be, offer, follow · To what, where: council, enemy general battle
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 (invader, it), 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 | 3 held | nsubj |
| 2 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 held | advmod |
| 3 | held | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 council | det |
| 5 | council | council | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 held | obj |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 captains | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 captains | nmod:poss |
| 8 | captains | captain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 council | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 determined | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 determined | cc |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 determined | nsubj |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 determined | cop |
| 13 | determined | determined | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 held | advcl |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 offer | mark |
| 15 | offer | offer | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 determined | xcomp |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 battle | det |
| 17 | enemy | enemy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 battle | amod |
| 18 | general | general | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 battle | amod |
| 19 | battle | battle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 offer | obj |
| 20 | on | on | ADP | _ | 23 day | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 day | det |
| 22 | following | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 23 day | amod |
| 23 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 battle | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 held | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hold | past | invader | a council | then | with invader's captains | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent council=Theme | ||
| 2 | is | past | it | determined property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | offer | to-infinitive | the enemy general battle | on the following day | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent battle=Theme | ||||
| 4 | follow | gerund | vn occur-48.3-1 «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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