Legends of the conquest of Spain, Traitorous Message of Count Julian., sentence 20
Issuing out of the camp, he sought the banks of the Guadalete, and proceeded silently along its stream, which reflected the distant fires of the Christian camp.
Who acts: page, stream · What happens: issue, seek, proceed, reflect, fire · To what, where: camp, banks, distant fires, Christian camp
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, stream), 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 | Issuing | issue | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 sought | advcl |
| 2 | out | out | ADP | _ | 5 camp | case |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 camp | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 camp | det |
| 5 | camp | camp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Issuing | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Issuing | punct |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 sought | nsubj |
| 8 | sought | seek | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 banks | det |
| 10 | banks | bank | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 sought | obj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 Guadalete | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Guadalete | det |
| 13 | Guadalete | Guadalete | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 banks | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 proceeded | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 proceeded | cc |
| 16 | proceeded | proceed | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 sought | conj |
| 17 | silently | silently | ADV | _ | 16 proceeded | advmod |
| 18 | along | along | ADP | _ | 20 stream | case |
| 19 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 stream | nmod:poss |
| 20 | stream | stream | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 proceeded | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 reflected | punct |
| 22 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 23 reflected | nsubj |
| 23 | reflected | reflect | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 stream | acl:relcl |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 fires | det |
| 25 | distant | distant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 fires | amod |
| 26 | fires | fire | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 reflected | obj |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 camp | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 camp | det |
| 29 | Christian | Christian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 camp | amod |
| 30 | camp | camp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 fires | nmod |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 sought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | issue | gerund | page not said here | the camp | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme out camp=Location | ||||
| 2 | seek | past | page | the banks of the Guadalete | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bank=Theme | ||||
| 3 | proceed | past | page not said here | along Guadalete's stream; silently property | vn begin-55.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | reflect | past | Guadalete's stream | the distant fires of the Christian camp | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | fire | the Christian camp | nom fire «event transitive»: of=patient |
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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