Legends of the conquest of Spain, Traitorous Message of Count Julian., sentence 19
He girded on a sword and dagger, slung an Arab bow with a quiver of arrows at his side, and a buckler at his shoulder.
Who acts: page, arrows · What happens: gird, sling, quiver · To what, where: buckler, sword, Arab bow, side
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: who acts (page, arrows), 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 | 2 girded | nsubj |
| 2 | girded | gird | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | on | on | ADP | _ | 5 sword | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 sword | det |
| 5 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 girded | obl |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 dagger | cc |
| 7 | dagger | dagger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sword | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 slung | punct |
| 9 | slung | sling | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 girded | conj |
| 10 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 bow | det |
| 11 | Arab | Arab | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 bow | amod |
| 12 | bow | bow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 slung | obj |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 quiver | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 quiver | det |
| 15 | quiver | quiver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 slung | obl |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 arrows | case |
| 17 | arrows | arrow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 quiver | nmod |
| 18 | at | at | ADP | _ | 20 side | case |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 side | nmod:poss |
| 20 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 slung | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 buckler | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 buckler | cc |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 buckler | det |
| 24 | buckler | buckler | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 girded | obl |
| 25 | at | at | ADP | _ | 27 shoulder | case |
| 26 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 shoulder | nmod:poss |
| 27 | shoulder | shoulder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 buckler | nmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 girded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | gird | past | page | a buckler at page's shoulder | a sword and dagger | tree rules | |||
| 2 | sling | past | page not said here | a Arab bow | page's side | with a quiver of arrows | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent bow=Theme at side=Destination | ||
| 3 | quiver | arrows | nom quiver «feeling intransitive»: of=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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