Legends of the conquest of Spain, Skirmishing of the Armies.—pelistes and His Son.—pelistes and the Bishop., sentence 43
[24] Don Roderick then formed the plan of action, and assigned to each commander his several station, after which he dismissed his officers, and each one sought his tent, to prepare by diligence or repose for the next day’s eventful contest.
Who acts: Don, one, next day · What happens: form, assign, dismiss, seek, prepare, repose · To what, where: 24, several station, commander, officers, tent, action
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 (Don, one, next day), 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 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 2 24 | punct |
| 2 | 24 | 24 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 7 formed | obl |
| 3 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 2 24 | punct |
| 4 | Don | Don | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 formed | nsubj |
| 5 | Roderick | Roderick | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Don | flat |
| 6 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 formed | advmod |
| 7 | formed | form | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 plan | det |
| 9 | plan | plan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 formed | obj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 action | case |
| 11 | action | action | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 plan | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 assigned | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 assigned | cc |
| 14 | assigned | assign | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 formed | conj |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 commander | case |
| 16 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 17 commander | det |
| 17 | commander | commander | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 assigned | obl |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 station | nmod:poss |
| 19 | several | several | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 station | amod |
| 20 | station | station | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 assigned | obj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 dismissed | punct |
| 22 | after | after | ADP | _ | 23 which | case |
| 23 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 25 dismissed | obl |
| 24 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 dismissed | nsubj |
| 25 | dismissed | dismiss | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 assigned | parataxis |
| 26 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 officers | nmod:poss |
| 27 | officers | officer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 dismissed | obj |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 sought | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 sought | cc |
| 30 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 31 one | det |
| 31 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 sought | nsubj |
| 32 | sought | seek | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 dismissed | conj |
| 33 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 34 tent | nmod:poss |
| 34 | tent | tent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 sought | obj |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 prepare | punct |
| 36 | to | to | PART | _ | 37 prepare | mark |
| 37 | prepare | prepare | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 32 sought | parataxis |
| 38 | by | by | ADP | _ | 39 diligence | case |
| 39 | diligence | diligence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 prepare | obl |
| 40 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 41 repose | cc |
| 41 | repose | repose | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 37 prepare | conj |
| 42 | for | for | ADP | _ | 48 contest | case |
| 43 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 45 day | det |
| 44 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 45 day | amod |
| 45 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 48 contest | nmod:poss |
| 46 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 45 day | case |
| 47 | eventful | eventful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 48 contest | amod |
| 48 | contest | contest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 repose | obl |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 formed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | form | past | Don | 24 | then | the plan of action obj | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location plan=Theme | ||
| 2 | assign | participle | Don not said here | Don's several station | to each commander goal | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent station=Theme to commander=Goal | |||
| 3 | dismiss | past | Don | Don's officers | which obl | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent officer=Theme | |||
| 4 | seek | past | each one | Don's tent | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | prepare | to-infinitive | by diligence | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | repose | infinitive | for the next day's eventful contest | vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 7 | plan | action | nom plan «cognition transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 8 | contest | the next day | nom contest «event 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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