Legends of the conquest of Spain, Traitorous Message of Count Julian., sentence 18
The page hastened to saddle a Barbary steed, fleet as the wind, and of a jet black colour, so as not to be easily discernible in the night.
What happens: hasten, saddle, not be · To what, where: page, Barbary steed
This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Traitorous Message of Count Julian.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 page | det |
| 2 | page | page | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | hastened | hasten | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 page | acl |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 saddle | mark |
| 5 | saddle | saddle | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 hastened | xcomp |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 steed | det |
| 7 | Barbary | Barbary | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 steed | compound |
| 8 | steed | steed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 saddle | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 fleet | punct |
| 10 | fleet | fleet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 steed | appos |
| 11 | as | as | ADP | _ | 13 wind | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 wind | det |
| 13 | wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 fleet | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 colour | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 colour | cc |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 jet | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 jet | det |
| 18 | jet | jet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 colour | compound |
| 19 | black | black | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 colour | amod |
| 20 | colour | colour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 page | conj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 discernible | punct |
| 22 | so | so | ADV | _ | 28 discernible | advmod |
| 23 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 28 discernible | mark |
| 24 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 28 discernible | advmod |
| 25 | to | to | PART | _ | 28 discernible | mark |
| 26 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 28 discernible | cop |
| 27 | easily | easily | ADV | _ | 28 discernible | advmod |
| 28 | discernible | discernible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 page | conj |
| 29 | in | in | ADP | _ | 31 night | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 night | det |
| 31 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 discernible | obl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 page | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hasten | participle | the page and jet black colour not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | saddle | to-infinitive | a Barbary steed | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent steed=Destination | |||||
| 3 | not is | to-infinitive | night | discernible, easily property | tree rules |
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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